Términos

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes are unique numeric identifiers for geographic areas in the U.S., including states (2 digits) and counties (5 digits, with the first two representing the state). These are managed by NIST and ANSI, and are used to link data to specific locations.

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.

First firing of a clay object which turns the greenware into a hardened object that may be glazed.

Term used for the second firing of ceramic wares to achieve the fusing of the glaze and the biscuit fired ceramic object.

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).