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DEFINITION: (noun) Ornamental trimming for a garment, as braid, lace, or metallic beads. SYNONYMS: trim, trimming. USAGE: The passementerie on her hat was so elaborate that it made the brim droop.

Ned Kelley is Australia's most famous bushranger and, to many, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. From the age of fourteen, Ned began committing a series of minor crimes that escalated into more serious crimes and eventually led to his execution. Many believe, however, that Ned's family was unfairly targeted by police because of Ned's mother's bad family name. In its last stand, the Kelley gang utilized "body armor" made out of what?

Brownstone is a red to brown variety of sandstone, whose unusual color is caused in some instances by the presence of red iron oxide which acts as a cement, binding the sand grains together. During the Triassic period, vast thicknesses of brownstone were deposited in the Connecticut River Valley of the northeast, and they were used to build the many brownstone houses and buildings in the area between Baltimore and Boston. Is sandstone a durable building material?