fire opal (from the article "opal") Fire opals usually are facet cut, but most other precious opals are finished en cabochon ...
fire piston (from the article "fire") ...variations on the friction method common in Oceania, Australia, and Indonesia. Mechanical fire drills were ...
fire polishing (from the article "industrial glass") ...phosphoric, and perchloric acids. The general approach to improving the chemical durability of glass is ...
fire prevention and control the prevention, detection, and extinguishment of fires, including such secondary activities as research into the ... [7 Related Articles]
fire salamander (from the article "Caudata") Females of the genera Salamandra and Mertensiella (Salamandridae) may retain the fertilized eggs in the ...
fire screen (from the article "fireplace") ...smaller pieces, did not become common until the 18th century. Coal scuttles appeared early in ...
fire step (from the article "trench warfare") ...a trench, soil from the excavation is used to create raised parapets running both in ...
fire storm violent convection caused by a continuous area of intense fire and characterized by destructively violent ... [1 Related Articles]
fire tower (from the article "forestry") ...has probably been most successful in detecting lightning-caused fires and is most often employed in ...
fire turbine (from the article "gas-turbine engine") Although many devices were subsequently proposed, the first significant advance was covered in an 1872 ...
fire walking religious ceremony practiced in many parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, Malaya, Japan, ...
Fire!! American magazine that exerted a marked impact on the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ...
Fire, Andrew Z. American scientist, who was a corecipient, with Craig C. Mello, of the Nobel Prize for ... [2 Related Articles]
fire-assay (from the article "assaying") ...particles randomly distributed, so that a large sample of the ore must be taken. Such ...
Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (from the article "Pentecostal Holiness Church, Inc.") Protestant denomination organized in Falcon, N.C., in 1911 by the merger of the Fire-Baptized Holiness ...
fire-bellied toad (Bombina ), small amphibian (family Bombinatoridae) characterized by bright orange markings on the undersides of its ...
fire-god (from the article "fire") The sacred fires and fire drills of religious rituals and the numerous fire-gods of world ...
fire-on-the-mountain (from the article "spurge") Annual ornamentals include snow-on-the-mountain (E. marginata ), native in the North American west; and many varieties ...
fire-quenching method (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...a succession of closely spaced shafts to provide ventilation. To save the need for a ...
fire-tube boiler (from the article "boiler") ...is necessary on all boilers, because continued addition of heat to water in a closed ...
fireback (from the article "fireplace") From early times fireplace accessories and furnishings have been objects of decoration. Since at least ...
fireball (from the article "meteor and meteoroid") A very significant development in meteor science occurred about two decades later. This was the ...
Fireball (from the article "roller coaster") In the 1920s Riverview Park in Chicago came closest to rivaling Coney Island, with always ...
fireboat vessel used in fire fighting in port cities. Basically a large tugboat, the fireboat is ...
firebrat (from the article "apterygote") ...the class Insecta. The term apterygotes, therefore, has been redefined to include only those groups ...
firebrick refractory material consisting of nonmetallic minerals formed in a variety of shapes for use at ... [2 Related Articles]
fireclay (from the article "Toft, Thomas") Toft was the first to add aluminous shale, or fireclay, a clay that can withstand ...
firecrest (from the article "firecrest") European species of kinglet (q.v. ).member of kinglet family
firedamp (from the article "mine gas") any of various harmful vapours produced during mining operations. The gases are frequently called damps ...
firefly any of some 2,000 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) found in most tropical and ... [9 Related Articles]
Firefly (from the article "Sherman tank") ...more survivable. Consequently, it took superior numbers for Anglo-American forces to defeat German armoured formations. ...
firefly shrimp (from the article "bioluminescence") The limpet Latia neritoides, found in streams around Auckland, N.Z., is the only strictly freshwater ...
firemouth (from the article "cichlid") Among the better known of the many popular aquarium cichlids are the firemouth (Cichlasoma meeki ), ...
Firenzuola, Agnolo (from the article "Italian literature") ...of expression were to be found in the 22 stories called Le cene (written after ...
fireplace housing for an open fire inside a dwelling, used for heating and often for cooking. ... [3 Related Articles]
fireproofing (from the article "textile") ...exposure to flame or high temperature. This is achieved by application of various finishes, depending ...
Fires of London (from the article "Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell") ...with Roger Sessions at Princeton University, New Jersey, in 1962-64. Davies returned to England and ...
Firestone Holdings LLC (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...industry. Leveraged buyouts were acquisitions done largely with borrowed money. Under the terms of the ...
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (from the article "Harbel") town, west-central Liberia, West Africa. It lies along the Farmington River, 15 miles (24 km) ...
Firestone, Harvey S. American industrialist noted for his establishment of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, which was ...
Firestone, Shulamith (from the article "feminism") ...the best-seller list in 1970, and in it she broadened the term politics to include ...
firethorn (Pyracantha ), any of a genus of usually thorny evergreen shrubs, in the rose family (Rosaceae), ...
firewall (from the article "Internet") ...that restrict access to independent sources of information. The Chinese government has been particularly successful ...
fireweed perennial wildflower, in the evening primrose family (Onagraceae), abundant on newly clear and burned areas. ... [1 Related Articles]
firework explosive or combustible used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of ...
fireworm any of certain segmented marine worms of the class Polychaeta (phylum Annelida), including species of ... [2 Related Articles]
firing (from the article "brick and tile") Bricks are fired and cooled in a kiln, an oven-type chamber capable of producing temperatures ...
firing pin (from the article "bolt action") type of breech mechanism that was the key to the development of the truly effective ...
firing threshold (from the article "muscle") ...small positive ions, mainly sodium. The resulting local depolarization (the end plate potential) causes voltage-gated ...
Firishtah one of Muslim India's most famous writers.
Firkusny, Rudolf Czech-born U.S. pianist (b. Feb. 11, 1912, Napajedla, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]--d. July 19, ...
firm-joint caliper (from the article "caliper") ...the dimensions of material parts. The calipers on the right side of the illustration have ...
firm-specific human capital (from the article "wage and salary") Becker introduced the important distinction between "general" human capital (which is valued by all potential ...
firman (from the article "Egypt") ...put by de Lesseps into Sa'id's account. French pressure on the sultan succeeded at last ...
Firmibacteria (from the article "bacteria") ...Often form long cell filaments. Division Firmicutes Nonphotosynthetic gram-positive bacteria. Class Firmibacteria Nonbranching gram-positive bacteria. Includes rods and cocci ...
Firmicus Maternus, Julius (from the article "patristic literature") Latin Christian literature in this period was slower than Greek in getting started, and it ...
Firmicutes (from the article "bacteria") ...order Prochlorales; gliding or nonmotile forms. Most cyanobacteria are photoautotrophs and can fix dinitrogen gas. ...
Firminy town, Loire departement, Rhone-Alpes region, southeast-central France. It lies on the Ondaine River immediately southwest ...
firmitas (from the article "architecture") Two plausible reasons can be given for according logical primacy in the Vitruvian triad to ...
firmoviscous deformation (from the article "rock") ...of such behaviour is creep, a slow, permanent, and continuous deformation occurring under constant load ...
Firmus (from the article "North Africa") ...the exiles to return. These were welcomed with enthusiasm, and the movement proved as strong ...
firmware (from the article "software") ...or "executing," a program. By contrast, software programs and procedures that are permanently stored in ...
firn partially compacted granular snow that is the intermediate stage between snow and glacial ice. Firn ... [2 Related Articles]
Firoz Shah, Battle of (Dec. 21-22, 1845), conflict between the Sikhs and the British at Firoz Shah, in the ...
Firozpur city, southwestern Punjab state, northwestern India, 5 miles (8 km) from the Pakistani border. Firozpur ...
Firozpur Jhirka city, southeastern Haryana state, northwestern India. The city is said to have been founded by ...
Firpo, Luis Argentine professional boxer. [2 Related Articles]
Firqat-Badr (from the article "Iraq") ...sides of the struggle. Most of the killings were carried out by armed militias belonging ...
First Afrikaans Language Movement (from the article "South African literature") ...men established the Association of True Afrikaners, which eventually published the first newspaper, the first ...
First Amendment (from the article "Constitution of the United States of America") ...attainder and ex post facto laws (Article I, Section 9). But the most significant limitations ...
First Antarctic Conference (from the article "Antarctica") ...the south geomagnetic pole focuses auroral and cosmic-ray activity in the Southern Hemisphere, and because ...
First Bank System, Inc. American bank holding company. Its major subsidiary is the First National Bank of Minneapolis. Headquarters ...
first baseman (from the article "Comiskey, Charles") ...in the first year of operation of the American Association, a league formed to challenge ...
First Bulgarian empire (from the article "Bulgaria") Asparukh and his successors established their court, which they built of stone, at Pliska, northeast ...
First Canadian Division (from the article "Canada") ...young men with no work and imbued with patriotism rushed to serve in the war. ...
first cause in philosophy, the self-created being (i.e., God) to which every chain of causes must ultimately ... [4 Related Articles]
First Chicago NBD Corporation (from the article "25 Largest U.S. Banks") Former U.S. bank holding company that merged with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in 2004. ...
First Church of Christ, Scientist (from the article "Maybeck, Bernard (Ralph)") ...a brick building with a wood "outrigger" cornice; and the Men's Faculty Club (1900), a ...
First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, The Mother Church of Christian Science, first established by Mary Baker Eddy in ...
first coalition war (from the article "Antigonus I Monophthalmus") Antigonus was now in complete control of Asia Minor, but Ptolemy, Lysimachus, Cassander, and Seleucus ...
First Coalition, War of the (from the article "Austria") For the first two wars, that of the First Coalition (1792-97) and that of the ...
First Congress (from the article "Lenin, Vladimir Ilich") ...Marxism led Lenin and his comrades to believe that the time was ripe to found ...
First Congress of Vienna (from the article "Poland") ...Poland. Muscovite expansion threatened Lithuania, and only a major victory at Orsza in 1514 averted ...
first contact (from the article "eclipse") ...from a narrow belt on Earth, sometimes only 150 km (90 miles) wide. The various ...
First Crusade (from the article "Germany") ...older and larger empire lacked. The papacy had dimmed the empire's prestige and decreased the ...
First Duma (from the article "Duma") ...28, 1912-March 11, 1917). They rarely enjoyed the confidence or the cooperation of the ministers ...
First Edition Club of London (from the article "Symons, A.J.A.") ...as an apprentice to a furrier. His formal education was private and scanty; Symons considered ...
first figure (from the article "logic, history of") Theophrastus is reported to have added to the first figure of the syllogism the five ...
First Five-Year Plan (from the article "Anshan") ...population had fallen, and steel production had virtually ceased. After 1949 the rehabilitation of heavy ...
First Five-Year Plan (from the article "Caterpillar Inc.") The company stayed afloat during the Great Depression partly by selling tractors and combines to ...
First Fleet (from the article "Australia") The First Fleet sailed on May 13, 1787, with 11 vessels, including 6 transports, aboard ...
First Fleet Act (from the article "Tirpitz, Alfred von") In 1898 Tirpitz introduced the First Fleet Act, for the reorganization of Germany's sea power. ...
First Folio first published edition (1623) of the collected works of William Shakespeare, originally published as Mr. ... [9 Related Articles]
First Fruits and Tenths, Court of (from the article "Augmentations, Court of") The remaining financial courts had very specific functions. The Court of First Fruits and Tenths ...
First German Television (from the article "broadcasting") ...are not a matter for the federal government but for the individual states (Lander ). The ...
First Helvetic Confession (from the article "Helvetic Confession") either of two confessions of faith officially adopted by the Reformed Church in Switzerland. The ...
first in, first out (from the article "accounting") Accountants can make this division by any of three main inventory costing methods: (1) first-in, ...
First Indochina War (from the article "Indochina wars") 20th-century conflicts in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, with the principal involvement of France (1946-54) and ...
First Intermediate period (from the article "Egypt, ancient") The First Intermediate period
First International Architecture Exhibition (from the article "industrial design") ...interests within popular exhibitions of the era, such as MoMA's renowned display in 1975-76 of ...
First International Conference of American States (from the article "Harrison, Benjamin") Harrison's administration was marked by an innovative foreign policy and expanding American influence abroad. His ...
First International Congress of Comparative Law (from the article "comparative law") The 19th century drew to a close with an important event-the meeting of the First ...
First International Congress of Philosophy (from the article "logic, history of") Logic in the 19th century culminated grandly with the First International Congress of Philosophy and ...
First International Polar Year (from the article "Antarctica") The importance of coordinating polar science efforts was recognized in 1879 by the International Polar ...
First Interstate Bancorp (from the article "Transamerica Corporation") ...activity. In 1958, following government antitrust action, Transamerica was reorganized to separate its banking and ...
First Job Contract law (from the article "France") Any political feel-good factor from this was undermined by the extraordinary crisis over the First ...
first lady wife of the president of the United States.
First Moroccan Crisis (from the article "Moroccan crises") ...show of imperial power, the emperor William II visited Tangier and, from his yacht on ...
First National Bank of Boston major American commercial bank with branch and representative offices in the United States and abroad. ... [1 Related Articles]
First National Bank of Chicago major American commercial bank formed in 1863, leading subsidiary of First Chicago NBD Corporation, a ...
First National Bank of Minneapolis major U.S. commercial bank founded in 1864, now the main subsidiary of First Bank System, ... [1 Related Articles]
First National Development Plan (from the article "Brazil") In 1971 Medici presented the First National Development Plan, which helped to increase the rate ...
First National Development Plan (from the article "Zambia") Shortly after independence, Zambia embarked on a program of national development planning, the Transitional Development ...
First National Pictures, Inc. (from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...Inc. (parent corporation of MGM, created by the merger of Metro, Goldwyn, and Mayer companies ...
First Nations, Assembly of (from the article "Canada") ...in Indian political activism during the 1970s. Provincial and territorial Indian organizations flourished. At the ...
First New England school (from the article "fuging tune") a form of hymnody developed by American composers of the so-called First New England school ...
First of June, Battle of the (June 1, 1794), the first great naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought between ...
First Peloponnesian War (from the article "ancient Greek civilization") ...boundary dispute and a local war) and turned to Athens. This was the cause and ...
first philosophy (from the article "Aristotle") ...the posthumous catalog of his writings as a name for the works listed after the ...
first position (from the article "ballet position") In the first position, the heels are together, with toes turned out until the feet ...
First Presbyterian Church (from the article "Harrison, Wallace K") ...his office buildings are the Alcoa Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. (1953), notable for its large aluminum ...
First Presidency (from the article "Mormon") The "General Authorities" of the church are the First Presidency (the church president and two ...
first principle (from the article "metaphysics") Another phrase used by Bradley in his preliminary discussion of metaphysics is "the study of ...
First Programme for Economic Expansion (from the article "Ireland") Sean Lemass, prime minister from 1959 to 1966, initiated measures to stimulate Ireland's seriously stagnating ...
First Provincial Normal School (from the article "Mao Zedong") Mao eventually graduated from the First Provincial Normal School in Changsha in 1918. While officially ...
First Religious Society (from the article "Higginson, Thomas Wentworth") Ordained after graduating from Harvard Divinity School (1847), Higginson became pastor of the First Religious ...
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