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7 unusual facts about Fir


British Christmas Tree Growers Association

Entries to the competition are divided into four categories; Pine, Fir, Spruce and Wreath.

Falls of Bruar

Once hostilities ended, the trees were replanted, again with Scots Pine but this time mixed with Hybrid Larch, Fir and Spruce.

Fir'im

By late June 1948, Israeli military intelligence reported (somewhat inaccurately, according to Morris), that "All the Arab villages in the Safad area as far northwestward as Sasa were empty".

According to HaReuveni, Jews also lived in Fir'im in the 16th century, and the son of Rabbi Yom Tov Tzahalon died there.

Himalayan silver fir forests

The term 'Silver Fir' means any Fir tree having leaves with silvery or Whitish under parts.

Vishaka Guidelines

Often, the police refuse to lodge FIRs for sexual harassment cases, especially where the harassment occurred sometime ago.

Vishakha and others v State of Rajasthan

Often, the police refuse to lodge FIRs for sexual harassment cases, especially where the harassment occurred some time ago.


Abies chensiensis

Abies chensiensis, the Shensi fir, is a fir native to Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Abies koreana

Korean Fir (Abies koreana; 구상나무, Gusang namu in Korean) is a fir native to the higher mountains of South Korea, including Jeju-do island.

Abies numidica

Abies numidica (Algerian Fir) is a species of fir, found only in Algeria, where it is endemic on Djebel Babor, the second-highest mountain (2,004 m) in the Algerian Tell Atlas.

Amur Oblast

These larch and fir-spruce forests form the watershed of the Selemdzha River, which flows south into the Zeya, continues to the city of Blagoveschchensk, and then into the Amur River.

Balsam woolly adelgid

The Spruce-fir moss spider, which lives on moss mats below the forest canopy, is considered endangered due to the decline of the Fraser fir.

Bitsa Park

The park is home to more than 500 species of plants, including lindens, oaks, and fine firs, planted by Mikhail Katkov's son at his family manor in the 19th century.

Boulder River Wilderness

Common vegetation in Boulder River Wilderness includes old-growth Douglas fir, true fir, western hemlock, and western red cedar, as well as bigleaf maple, alder, willow, and devil's club.

Browning, Wisconsin

Soil is principally 2nd Rate Timber Hemlock Birch Sugar White Pine Spruce and Fir and it is well watered by numerous Small Streams of pure water.

Canada balsam

Canada balsam, also called Canada turpentine or balsam of fir, is a turpentine which is made from the resin of the balsam fir tree (Abies balsamea) of boreal North America.

Claudio García

In 1991 García returned to Argentine football to join Racing Club de Avellaneda, he was also given his debut fir the Argentina national team in 1991.

Clearwater Wilderness

Old-growth forests of Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock and Western Red Cedar, reachable by hiking trails, are nourished by many streams and eight small lakes, including Summit Lake.

Congalach mac Conaing Cuirre

In 695 Congalach and his kinsman Áed mac Dlúthaig (died 701) of the Síl nDlúthaig of Fir Cúl Breg killed Fínsnechta Fledach, the High King of Ireland, and his son Bresal of the Clan Fínsnechtai sept at Grellaigh Dollaith.

Congress Square

In December 2004 the artist Matej Andraž Vogrinčič set up an "Enchanted Forest" in the square consisting of 1,000 potted fir trees.

Dame Pattie

Due to the restrictions on use of equipment and materials sourced from outside the defenders country, the Australian syndicate had to obtain permission from the New York Yacht Club to buy the edge grain fir from Stone Brothers Logging, Maple Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

David Douglas High School

The school is named after 19th-century Scottish botanist David Douglas, namesake of such Pacific Northwest species as the Douglas-fir.

Diarmait Dian

Diarmait himself was killed in 689 as part of the old feud by Áed mac Dlúthaig (died 701) of the Fir Cúl Breg sept of Síl nÁedo Sláine.

Dingman's Ferry Bridge

Each year, the bridge company closes the bridge the second week after Labor Day to conduct any repairs needed to maintain the structural integrity of the bridge and to replace or flip the salt-treated B.C. fir planks.

Fir Bolg

In Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile, the Tuatha Dé Danann and Fir Bolg are recast as warring aliens from another galaxy inhabiting prehistoric Earth, the "Tanu" and "Firvulag", respectively.

Fir Domnann

Yet the area with the strongest place-name associations with the Fir Domnann is in north-west Mayo: the Iorrais Domnann, from which the modern barony of Erris takes its name, and nearby Mag Domnann and Dún Domnann.

Flann mac Áedo

He was the son of Áed mac Dlúthaig (died 701), King of Fir Cúl and great-grandson of Ailill Cruitire mac Áedo Sláine (died 634), a king of Brega.

Glossary of woodworking

Softwood - wood from a gymnosperm tree, i.e. trees in the divisions Pinophyta and Ginkgophyta Despite the name, not necessarily very soft or light wood (e.g. douglas-fir is a softwood).

Grande Ronde Valley

The Grande Ronde River flows through the valley; its tributaries include Catherine, Fir, Ladd, Little, Mill, Pyles, and Willow creeks.

Greenlink Cycle Path

It by-passes the Forgewood suburb of Motherwell heading towards Braidhurst High School, and subsequently travels under the Argyle Line heading towards the new site of the Cathedral Primary School and Fir Park nursery joint campus.

Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway

The first was built three miles from Immingham by Siemens Brothers whose contract included the construction of the overhead line and the installation of 184 Baltic Redwood fir poles which would run alongside the line.

Juken New Zealand

At present Juken Nissho controls around 550 km² of Pinus radiata, Douglas-fir and Corsican pine.

Kunal Ghosh

An FIR was filed against Ghosh at the Bhowanipore police station by employees of the closed Bengali daily Sakalbela for non-payment of salaries and another at the Park Street police station by employees of Channel 10, for a similar reason.

Laricifomes officinalis

Wild Agarikon is only found in old-growth forests, and grows on conifers, particularly Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga) and larch (Larix).

Lenin Raghuvanshi

He filed an FIR (First Information Report) against Rajendar Thripathi, the village head of Belwa in the Badagaon administrative district in his capacity as a member of the Disctict Vigilance Committee.

Nacophorini

Caterpillars of Declana from New Zealand, also tentatively placed in the Nacophorini, have been found on Myrtaceae (eucalyptus, Kunzea and Leptospermum), Pinaceaelarches (Larix), pines (Pinus, notably Monterey Pine, P. radiata) and Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) –, and southern beeches (Nothofagaceae).

North Atlantic Tracks

Air Traffic Controllers responsible for the Gander FIR are based at the Gander Oceanic Control Centre in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.

Oborniki Śląskie

The fir was stamped with postmarks yet before the World War, but as a coat of arms was approved just in 1991.

Papineau-Labelle Wildlife Reserve

Besides several softwood species (such as fir, spruce, pine, cedar and hemlock), other hardwood species present include: red oak, beech, linden, elm, and ash.

Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area

When the park was established, it was devoid of trees and was subsequently reforested in the 1930s with pines, eucalyptus, tropical ash, cypress, China-fir, and coast redwood.

Sān miào wán

33% huáng bǎi ( or "yellow fir"), also known as Cortex Phellodendri, the bark of Phellodendron chinense Schneid.

Sarabjit Singh

Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney claimed that none of the four FIRs filed with regard to the bombings contained Singh's name nor his description and that Singh had been arrested on the night of 30 August 1990 at the Kasur border for illegally crossing the Indo-Pakistani border.

Sláine

Sláine mac Dela of the Fir Bolg, the first legendary High King of Ireland

Snoqualmie Falls

Here, the river trail descends 300 feet in half a mile passing though temperate rain forest with moss covered Bigleaf Maple, Douglas-fir, Sword Fern and Salal and places to step off the trail and rest or enjoy the scenery.

Spirit of South Carolina

She is built of several types of woods traditionally used in shipbuilding, including: Live Oak, Angelique, Longleaf Pine, Sapele, Purpleheart, and Douglas Fir.

Toronto Area Control Centre

To the east are the Montreal Area Control Centre and Boston ARTCC; to the south are the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center, Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center, and New York Air Route Traffic Control Center; to the west is the Winnipeg Area Control Centre/FIR.

Viking Age arms and armour

The sagas specifically mention linden wood for shield construction, although finds from graves shows mostly other timbers, such as fir, alder and poplar.

Western red-backed vole

Rhizopogon vinicolor is one such which is associated with the Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga spp.).

Xilinx

Xilinx's IP cores include IP for simple functions (BCD encoders, counters, etc.), for domain specific cores (digital signal processing, FFT and FIR cores) to complex systems (multi-gigabit networking cores, the MicroBlaze soft microprocessor and the compact Picoblaze microcontroller).


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