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He had an earlier television incarnation as Bill Brand in the 1970s ITV series of the same name about a fictional firebrand Labour MP.

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But Jacobson has taken heat for these signings from some of the more traditional acts on his roster as well as other executives and firebrands online.

Winds launched burning firebrands into the hillside neighborhoods, destroying scores of homes.

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According to the ATF special agent, a firebrand became lodged within dense chaparral and then smoldered and burned within the roots of the vegetation.

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Republican politicians and conservative firebrands have made that goal explicit.

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