Quartz sparked enthusiasm among English speaking Twitter users, as well.

To give the graffiti its real power, let's remember the spark that lit the Syrian revolt flame.

The defeat of French army at the Battle of Bailén in Spain on 27 July 1808 triggered the war.

I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.

And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

The bonfire was sparked by the collapse of the Thai baht in the summer of 1997.

A powerful feature of the Egyptian revolution was the equality between the very different actors who initiated it.

The protest energy that briefly electrified Tiananmen Square dissipated out of the cities and spread across the countryside.

Rising energy and commodity prices helped create the global food crisis, which fed the financial crisis.

Eight years ago, electoral fraud during the 2004 presidential vote sparked the protests that came to be known as the Orange Revolution.

Viewers were kept on their toes, with an 18 minute advertising slot before the show, which ignited their anger and sarcasm

These resignations have sparked outrage from opposition bloggers who believe that the Kremlin is reneging on promises to loosen its grip on central power.

Kyrgyz artist Gulzada Ryskulova has rocked the local music scene with a powerful take on an epic poem that serves as a fundament of the Central Asian country's culture.

The heat from the explosion set fire to the forest below it, and then the shock wave came down and knocked down trees for hundreds of square miles, okay?

The night of November 17 Black Friday, as it quickly came to be known set Czechoslovakia alight.

Not surprisingly, the spike in food prices was a contributing factor in the civil unrest that sparked the Arab Spring.

In Tunisia, whose revolution ignited the wildfire of change that quickly spread across the region, young people account for 70 of total unemployment.

The news also rekindled debate about the death penalty in India and whether it was likely to deter or provoke future terrorist attacks.

For once, what has set financial markets ablaze are not their excesses, but those of Wall Street.

The decision triggered a severe response from China, where students held demonstrations against his visit. Bilateral relations were frozen.

When she became the first woman to be British Prime Minister, she fired the ambitions of countless young women around the world (including mine).

The Lahad Datu standoff also sparked a humanitarian crisis after scores of Sabah residents with Filipino ancestry were arrested and more than 1,500 migrant Filipinos sought refuge in the Philippines.

In some countries, notably the United States, these tensions between science and religion have fuelled the current creation evolution controversy, a religious conflict focusing on politics and public education.

High food prices may have served as a trigger in North Africa, but the speed with which the protesters turned their attention to political reform caught everyone off guard.

Putin connects two events that triggered WWII, the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, in one causal construction.

The massacre occurred under the watch of the Israeli Defense Force, who at the time had gained control of West Beirut, guarded the entrances to the camps, and lit flares at night to provide visibility to their Lebanese allies.

It's said that the Syrian revolution ignited the fire of sectarianism some claim that before the revolution we lived together in harmony. But the bitter truth is that we lived side by side, in boxes which completely separated us from each other.

The products of the Bone Wars resulted in an increase in knowledge of prehistoric life, and sparked the public's interest in dinosaurs, leading to continued fossil excavation in North America in the decades to follow.

These same weapons fuelled the killings in Rwanda and in Bosnia a decade ago and are fuelling the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Darfur today.

A little more than a year after the 1997 exchange rate debacle triggered Asian economies worst recession in decades, they were thriving again.

Social networks were blazing with the Spanish speaking voices of activists defending the legacy of the indigenous civilizations of the continent, sharing photos of protests against the celebration of October 12 and recalling the disadvantages that these groups suffer today.

The news resulted in immediate and massive street protests from the opposition. During clashes between the police and protesters, at least five demonstrators were reported dead.

Chen s case has reignited a discussion about the pros and cons of exile that has been going on since the aftermath of the Tiannamen protests Will Chen lose support and influence if he leaves China? And will the government let him come back after flirting with the US?

History will record that the match Bouazizi lit on December 17, 2010, became the fortuitous spark that ignited an Arab prairie fire.

When a country gives up its monetary sovereignty, its banks are effectively borrowing in a foreign currency, making them exceptionally vulnerable to liquidity shocks, like that which sparked turmoil in Europe s banking system in 2010 2011.

Egypt's Military Police set Cairo's Tahrir Square ablaze and forcefully pushed away protesters demonstrating outside the Cabinet on the first anniversary of the Arab revolution, sparked by the self immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia.

Worse yet, the fundamental excesses that fueled the crisis too much debt and leverage in the private sector (households, banks and other financial institutions, and even much of the corporate sector) have not been addressed.

Acquitting the heads of the SSI and the CSF (the 300,000 strong institution that acted as the muscle of Mubarak s regime), after a revolution sparked by police brutality, led directly to renewed protests in Tahrir Square.

Historically, such clashes have often sparked civil war (for example, Spain in 1936 or Tajikistan in 1992) or brutal military coups (as in Indonesia in 1965 and Turkey in 1980).

And Chinese companies land purchases in Iceland have been so extensive as to fuel local paranoia, with some investment plans blocked for fear that they might be a stepping stone to a Chinese military presence.

Indeed, it was his decision to extend, unconstitutionally, the term of the reliably pro Syrian Emile Lahoud as Lebanon s president in 2004 that triggered the political crisis leading to Hariri s murder and the emergence of a coalition of anti Syrian groups, which included many former Syrian allies.

In two years, Europeans will commemorate the centennial of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, and the subsequent July crisis that triggered World War I that August.

Photo Casa de Nariño Presidency of Colombia. At the beginning of 2016, Colombia passed Law 1773, also known as the Natalia Ponce de León Law, which has toughened sentences and taken judicial benefits away from the perpetrators of attacks using acid and other chemicals. The law is named after a victim of one of these attacks, whose case sparked the debate over the lack of legislation in Colombia on this type of violence.

In the tumult of the post revolutionary period, she presided with surprising even handedness over the unavoidable rivalries among different sides of the political spectrum. More importantly, Cory sparked the momentum for the Philippines to regain a position of respect, dignity and even admiration in the community of nations.