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When a lot of people picture a fire extinguisher, the picture that's called to mind belongs to a CO2 extinguisher. With their large, metals cylinders of bright red and hard horns, these fire extinguishers have been installed as an emergency measure in homes and businesses for generations. Carbon dioxide extinguishers could be differentiated from similar extinguishers through the lack of any kind of pressure gauge at the top of the tank. When tractors were first developed, they used enormous steam engines that were notoriously unreliable and hard to maintain. These were phased out around the turn with the twentieth century and substituted for internal combustion engines which were smaller though powerful and ran on a number of fuels including kerosene, ethanol and gasoline. By the 1960s several of these engines were phased out and only more effective internal combustion engines that ran on diesel and after this, biodiesel. Between June 25 and 26, 1876, a combined force of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne led the United States 7th Cavalry into a battle near the Little Bighorn River with what was then the eastern side of the Montana Territory. The engagement is known by a few names: the Battle of Greasy Grass, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Custer's Last Stand. Perhaps the most famous action in the Indian Wars, it had been a remarkable victory for Sitting Bull and the forces. They defeated a column of 900 men led by George Armstrong Custer; five of the Seventh's companies were annihilated and Custer himself was killed inside engagement as well as 2 of his brothers as well as a brother-in-law. Known as the battle that left no white survivors, Little Big Horn has inspired more than 1,000 works of art, including over 40 films. Here are four of the best...