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according to legend, George Washington personally stopped an angry mob from burning St. Philip's Church in the Highlands (pictured).

in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States.

the force-feeding (pictured) of suffragette, arsonist and hunger-striker Lilian Lenton caused food to enter her lungs and led to public outrage.

a recent fire in the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine (traditional Ukrainian church pictured) was set to cover up the theft of 18th-century cassones.

English suffragette Olive Wharry was imprisoned in 1913 for an arson attack at Kew Gardens.

arson was suspected when the last original boô (pictured), a building where a farmer rested when grazing cattle far from a village, burned down in the Netherlands.

arsonists set fire to the Cutts-Madison House (pictured) in Washington, D.C., while Dolley Madison was living there.

California's 2007 Santiago Fire (pictured) was started deliberately.

"quickfire", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds, was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime.

Understanding Arson: A Quiz on Fire Crimes

1 Arson (or fire-raising, as it is known in Scotland) is defined as "the malicious burning of the dwelling of another" in ________.

2 In the ________, the common law elements of arson are often varied in different jurisdictions.

3 It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural ________.

4 The ________ must prove each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.

5 A criminal may be sentenced to death penalty if arson occurred as a method of homicide, as was the recent case in ________ of Raymond Lee Oyler and in Texas of Cameron Willingham.

6 In ________, the term "fire raising" is the equivalent term used instead of arson, but both mean the same.

7 Arson usually describes fires deliberately set to the property of another or to one's own property as to collect ________ compensation.

8 In English law, arson was a common law offence which was recently defined again and codified by the ________.

9 Arson is the ________ of intentionally and maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas.

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