Upon purchasing the Louisiana Territory in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson already had plans for a great expedition of this new territory in the West. ... The American Indians helped Lewis and Clark discover hundreds of plants specimens and ascertain their habitats, growth needs, and uses. ... Certain medicines could be made from certain plants and used, such as aloe from the plant used for sun burns. ... Western Geography Clark made a huge impact on this expedition in his part of being a great cartographer. ... The Corp of Discovery found that the headwaters of every major river in the West ...

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History The first European explorer to encounter Costa Rica was the Great Navigator himself, Christopher Columbus. The day was September 18, 1502, and Columbus was making his fourth and final voyage to the New World. As he was setting anchor off shore, a crowd of local Carib Indians paddled out in...

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"Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. ... Many times only string and copper wire were used to transfer proportions such as the golden section dimension into a column, the space between columns, the widths and heights, or to a plan layout of a building (Harris). ...

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Honey has an incredibly low water level of about 0.6, which makes the growth of microorganisms nearly impossible. ... Early humans must have viewed its discovery as a miracle; it never spoiled, was intensely sweet and was nearly immune to the growth of microorganisms, meaning it could be preserved and traveled with. ...

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Important Facts the smallest unit of life is the cell instructions for development are contained in DNA collectively, all of the chemical processes in a cell are called metabolism producers often obtain energy from the sun homeostasis refers to the ability to maintain a constant internal environment cells in domains archaea and eubacteria lack nucleii plants are multicellular producers an educated guess might be called a hypothesis science is based on evidence philosophy is not a step in the scientific method an atom is the smallest unit of substance that retains the properties of the subst...

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The first great expansion of European capitalism took place in the 16th century, following the first circumnavigation of the earth in 1519 to 1521. ... This was brought to a halt by the First World War and the bout of anti-free trade protectionism that led to the Great Depression in 1930. ... The end of the Second World War brought another great expansion of capitalism with the development of multinational companies interested in producing and selling in the domestic markets of nations around the world. ... The WTO argues that the growth of trade between countries increases the wealth of ev...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and assoc...

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