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Usar para: Wills's Cigarettes

• W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco manufacturing company formed in Bristol, England. It was the first British company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the 13 founding companies of the Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland); these firms became branches, or divisions, of the new combine and included John Player & Sons.
• In 1888 W.D.& H.O. Wills became the first British cigarette manufacturer to include cards, again originally for advertising purposes; however in 1895 they issued their first general interest set titled Ships & Soldiers. This no doubt represented the target market for their product. Cigarette cards are small collectible cards issued by tobacco companies between the late 19th century and the 1940s. They first served to protect cigarettes inside soft paper packs, but soon became popular advertising tools and collector items.

Usar para: World War 1, First World War, Great War, 1914-1918, European War, 1914-1918, WWI, WW1

• an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers.

Usar para: Ginger

• Plant family made up of aromatic herbs that grow in moist areas of the tropics and subtropics, including some regions that are seasonably dry. Members of the family are perennials that frequently have sympodial (forked) fleshy rhizomes (underground stems). Commonly known as the ginger family of flowering plants.

Usar para: Geoscience

• The fields of study concerned with the solid Earth. Included are sciences such as mineralogy, geodesy, and stratigraphy.

• 1: a treatise on some aspect of nature
• 2: the natural development of something (such as an organism or disease) over a period of time
• 3: the study of natural objects especially in the field from an amateur or popular point of view

• branch of biology that studies the members of the animal kingdom and animal life in general. It includes both the inquiry into individual animals and their constituent parts, even to the molecular level, and the inquiry into animal populations, entire faunas, and the relationships of animals to each other, to plants, and to the non-living environment.

Usar para: Mallows

• A plant family containing species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the tropics. A number of species are economically important, including cotton (various Gossypium species), cacao (Theobroma cacao), linden (Tilia species), durian (Durio species), Hibiscus, and okra (Abelmoschus esculentus).

Usar para: Lindens

• A plant genus (of the family Tiliaceae) of trees that are native in temperate regions and often planted as shade trees, that are distinguished by having cordate leaves, a winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, indehiscent fruit with one or two seeds, and soft easily carved wood, and that have a strong hybridizing tendency. A few are outstanding as ornamental and shade trees.

Usar para: Umbelliferae

• A large family of plants. The plants are often fragrant or aromatic, that have small flowers borne in umbels and include numerous economically important plants (as the carrot, anise, caraway, dill, and parsley)Plants distributed throughout a wide variety of habitats, principally in the north temperate regions of the world. A number of species are economically important as leaf and root vegetables, herbs and spices, and garden ornamentals. Commonly known as the parsley family.