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Performers who work along the streets or other public areas, typically hoping to earn tips from passersby for their performance.

Identification numbers or alphanumeric codes assigned to, and usually posted on, buildings or plots located on a thoroughfare.

Depictions of people and activity on urban streets.

Form of live performance or presentation in a public space, usually outdoors, outside an area such as an arena designated for performances; it is also characterized by the lack of ticket sales or otherwise formally paying audience, although often donations are solicited from the gathered crowd of spectators.

Platforms or booths set up in a town square or other public location, often on market day, to accommodate traveling players or street performers.

Úsese para designar un espacio medioambiental físico configurado por calles, que incluye elementos tales como estructuras, espacios abiertos y vegetación.

Genus containing slim, small to medium-sized species of birds in the dove family.

Migratory species of slim dove native to Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Condición resultante de una fuerza aplicada; condición existente en un cuerpo cuando su estructura interna o superficie resiste una fuerza que produce o tiende a producir la deformación de un cuerpo.

Puente diseñado para el tráfico peatonal, generalmente compuesto de una cubierta reforzada por arcos o cables en suspensión para minimizar el movimiento horizontal.

Walking with long or extended steps.

Order containing around 180 species in two families of nocturnal raptorial birds with hooked beaks, strong talons, and soft plumage. All owls have the same general appearance, which is characterized by a flat face, small hooked beak, short tail, round wings, and large, forward-facing eyes. The bird became associated with Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and also owls became symbolic of intelligence because it was thought that they could forsee events. Also, because of their nocturnal existence and hooting sounds, owls have also been symbols associated with the occult. In the Middle Ages, the owl became a symbol of the darkness before the coming of Christ.

Instruments with a curved blade, used by ancient Greeks and Romans to scrape sweat and dirt from the skin after exercise or while bathing.

Adornos elaborados frecuentemente parecidos a animales, seres humanos o plantas, producidos por calógrafos para decorar obras caligráficas. Fueron especialmente comunes en cuadernos de escritura europeos del siglo XVII y XVIII y realizados o hechos para que parecieran ejecutados con una línea contínua.

Clocks that designate periods of time audibly by using a striking mechanism on a bell or gong. If the sounds are musical, prefer "chiming clocks."

Pottery created in the later phase of Bandkeramik culture, characterized by rows of incisions, punctures, impressions, and notches arranged to suggest bands.

Family of gastropods known as "true conchs," that feed on fine plant matter in warm waters.

Distinguished by a foot and operculum that are greatly modified; they move with a lurching motion; they feed on algae and plants. Some species used for human food, others used by humans for decoration.

Species of marine snail found in sandy bottoms from Florida to Brazil; prized for its attractive white and pink ornamental shell. In some classifications now known as Eustrombus gigas or Lobatus gigas.

Strontium (symbol: Sr) is a soft silver-white metallic element that turns yellow when exposed to air. Strontium is used commercially in luminous paint, fireworks and television tubes, and the compound strontium-oxide serves as a non-toxic replacement for lead in ceramic glazes. Paleontologists study strontium levels in human and animal bone for information about ancient diet.