Beginning in 1834, an index of business activity by the Cleveland Trust Company provides data for comparison between recessions. Beginning in 1854, the National Bureau of Economic Research dates recession peaks and troughs to the month. However, a standardized index does not exist for the earliest recessions. In 1791, Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States to handle the country's financial needs.
n. pl. shellfish or shellÂ·fishÂ·es. 1. Any of various edible aquatic invertebrate animals having a shell, especially mollusks such as clams and oysters, and crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs, and shrimp. 2. An edible mollusk, in contrast to a crustacean: regulations concerning fish, crustaceans, and shellfish. 3. The edible flesh of such animals.
Coral are medusoid marine animals that are in the phylum cnidaria. Most of the coral population is in large groups at the sea floor. A coral head is a colony of myriad genetically similar polyps. Each polyp is a spineless animal typically very small.ellyfish are polypoid, free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are invertebrates. that means they have no bones, exoskeleton, or shell to protect them. the majority of their body is made up of water.