Report Abuse. even uncured bacon will last a couple of weeks in the fridge. Cured bacon-the normal kind-is designed to last a long time. That's why they cure it. Pioneers used to carry it with them unrefrigerated as they traveled west and it was a staple of miners. They didn't have refrigerators.
militia If you live in a remote place that's under attack by an upstart band of thieves, start a militia. A militia is a band of civilians trained to do army type business, without officially joining the army. Militia comes from mÄ«let-, Latin for soldier, but the word now refers to a band of fighters who aren't officially soldiers. Sometimes militias add on to regular army forces, like the citizen's militias who fought alongside regular troops in the Revolutionary War.
A confederation is a group of sovereign states, each of which is free to act independently from the others. In 1776, when America gained its independence, a loose confederation was formed among the thirteen colonies.