Términos

Cloth or velvet bags usually richly decorated with beadwork, made distinctive by its bottom terminating in eight separate arms. Created by Métis and First Nations communities to carry ammunition, fire starters, and/or tobacco. Likely originated in the early 1800s amongst the Métis and spread to other Native North Americans across Canada and the United States.

Devices, considered a derivative of bow drills, specifically used to produce fire by friction.

Damage caused by fire, including burning and ash residue.

Refers to relatively small buildings or sheds housing the tools for firefighting. Fire hoses, buckets, and ladders may be stored in fire hose houses. Examples are historical structures that were part of a neighborhood system of firefighting in which responsibility was placed on the individual districts of a city. For more modern structures, housing fire engines and often quarters for firemen, use "fire stations."

Horns, first introduced in 1749 in New York, used by fire department officers in order to amplify their voices.

Pits dug into the ground, often made from stones, used for keeping fires.

Scaffoldings or other supporting structures, decorative or purely functional, for bearing fireworks during a fireworks display or from which fireworks are shot off into the air.

Sociedades de dos o más personas quienes llevan adelante negocios bajo un nombre común.

Phylum of bacteria, most having gram-positive cell wall structures.

Instruction sets or programs that are stored in ROM or programmable modules in devices such mobile phones, digital cameras, remote controls, or electronic musical instruments to control their functions.

That which is placed in position number one of a sequence.

Century in the proleptic Gregorian calendar including the years 1 to 99 (or 1 to 100).

Century in the proleptic Gregorian calendar including the years 99 to 1 (or 100 to 1) Before Common Era.

Úsese para sobres, tarjetas postales u otros artículos postales de tamaño razonable, con un nuevo sello o sellos estampados con una aplicación postal que marca "Primer Día de Edición" e indica la fecha y el lugar de la primera edición oficial.

Usually refers to the wives of presidents of the United States. May also refer to women chosen by presidents to act as hostesses at the White House or to the wives of the heads of any country or jurisdiction.

General term for administrative divisions, usually of a nation, that represent the highest unit or level under the nation itself. Examples are the states of the United States.