â¢ BALSA (noun). The noun BALSA has 2 senses: 1. strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats. 2. forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts. Familiarity information: BALSA used as a noun is rare.. strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats. 2. forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts.
Josiah Wedgwood Â© Wedgwood was an innovative designer, a manufacturer of high-quality pottery and a campaigner for social reform.Josiah Wedgwood was born into a family of potters on 12 July 1730, at Burslem, Staffordshire.osiah Wedgwood Â© Wedgwood was an innovative designer, a manufacturer of high-quality pottery and a campaigner for social reform.
Theodosia's two young sons had returned from the south, and Burr arranged for a tutor for Theodosia's children and, possibly, for her half-sister Caty. [Tell me more about this tutor.] For much of 1780â81, for reasons that are not clear, Theodosia was living in Sharon, Connecticut.fter the Revolution. Following her marriage to Aaron Burr in 1782, Theodosia saw to it that her brother-in-law Joseph Browne was named the executor of the estate she had inherited from her deceased husband, James Marcus Prevost. James appears to have been indebted to a Mrs. Anne Baldwin in the amount of 470 pounds.