Aerial firefighting is the use of aircraft and other aerial resources to combat wildfires. The types of aircraft used include fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. Smokejumpers and rappellers are also classified as aerial firefighters, delivered to the fire by parachute from a variety of fixed-wing aircraft, or rappelling from helicopters.
The name bunyip comes from the Wemba-Wemba language of southeastern Australia. It is normally translated today as devil or evil spirit. During the early settlement of Australia by Europeans, the idea that the bunyip was an actual unknown animal that had yet to be discovered became common. large number of bunyip sightings by settlers were recorded during the 1840s and 1850s, especially in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. Various written stories of bunyips were made by Europeans in the early and mid-19th century.
the true origin is uncertain the word picnic did not originate as an abbreviation of pick a nigger a phrase falsely claimed to have been used by white families at community lynchings in the 19th century picnic comes from 17th century french piquenique which is of uncertain originhe word crap did not originate as a back formation of british plumber thomas crapper s surname nor does his name originate from the word crap although the surname may have helped popularize the word the surname crapper is a variant of cropper which originally referred to someone who harvested crops