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Deutsch: Nähen / Español: Costura - Costura / Português: Costura - Costura / Français: Couture - Couture
Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era. Before the invention of spinning yarn or weaving fabric, archaeologists believe Stone Age people across Europe and Asia sewed fur and skin clothing using bone, antler or ivory needles and "thread" made of various animal body parts including sinew, catgut, and veins.
Deutsch: Natrium / Español: Sodio / Português: Sódio / Français: Sodium / Italiano: Sodio
Sodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na (from Latin: natrium) and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silver-white, highly reactive metal and is a member of the alkali metals; its only stable isotope is 23Na. The free metal does not occur in nature, but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated by Humphry Davy in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide.
Deutsch: Zeitplan / Español: Horario / Português: Cronograma / Français: Programme / Italiano: Programma /
Schedule may refer to a timetable or broadcast programming.
Deutsch: Bach / Español: Arroyo / Português: Córrego / Français: Ruisseau / Italiano: Ruscello
A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill (occasionally ghyll), kill, lick, mill race, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or runnel.