Lord Howe Island Flycatcher The Lord Howe Island Fly Catcher is a bird that went extinct 88 years ago. It’s scientific name is Gerygone insularis (reserved‚ 2012). Some interesting facts about it are that it’s order is Passeriforme and it’s family is Acanthizidae (reserved‚ 2012). It’s habitat is a forest on Lord Howe Island in Austrailia. The bird’s diet was arthropods and other flying insects (reserved‚ 2012). It would normally lay 2-3 pink eggs (reserved‚ 2012). If you want to know exactly
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Without plants‚ almost all life on our planet will end. Plants provide oxygen for animals and humans to breathe and they provide food for several animals. At present‚ there are 260‚000 known plant species in the world. Plants are found in fresh water‚ in oceans and on land. A few plants live in soil that does not provide sufficient nutrients‚ therefore‚ they eat insects for nourishment. Bug-eating plants include sundews and pitcher plants. Here are 10 strange facts about plants you didn’t know. List
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During the second half of the 19th century and well into the 20th‚ the city of Los Angeles was subject to a period of what author William Deverell calls “whitewashing.” In other words‚ Deverell argues that after the Mexican-American War‚ the newly arrived white population in Los Angeles did a number of things to distance themselves from the Mexican population‚ as well as other ethnic groups. In his extensive work Whitewashed Adobe‚ Deverell forms his argument around the specific‚ and racist tactics
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disease stuck around? To really simplify things: during the black plague in Europe‚ people with more iron in their system were more likely to die because bacteria feeds on iron. Women‚ children‚ and the elderly were less targeted than men. But people with hemachromatosis also happen to have white immune system blood cells with considerably less iron than the normal person‚ and this counteracted the precise way that the bubonic plague killed its victims - through their own immune system. Therefore‚
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as the Black Plague. The Black Death was caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) that was carried in fleas that travelled to Europe on the backs of rats that snuck aboard international trade ships around 1347. The Black Death quickly spread from various port-cities in the south of Europe throughout all of Europe. Eventually the Black Death would wipe out a third of the European population before the devastation of this bacterium is almost extinguished about a century after the plague first hit the
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become more relaxed and grow to like luxury items. Also instead of their old traditions of sleeping on the floor in tents they started living in luxury houses with luxury furniture . The final blow to the Mongol Empire was the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague that killed many of the nomadic
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have to evolve to changes in the environment and society. It has survived many problems in the past and it has changed for the better from those experiences. Humans have lived extreme times in earth’s history such as the last ice age and the bubonic plague. And so they have adapted to these events and have gained experience and evolved for the better. One main ideas of this book is this book is that mankind is always changing to be more efficient and to adapt to different events. The author writes of
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who killed anyone outside of our walls. Next a disease that crawled its way past our protective barrier and into our people. Relatives and friends laid dead in the streets‚ piled on top of each other‚ unburied because of the fear of the contagious plague. Another 30‚000 people no longer with us. After that we had a short period of peace that was interrupted when our democracy decided to seek after a silly war in Sicily. Of the 40‚000 allied troops we sent to fight there‚ only seven thousand returned
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Roman empire to plummet. The Roman Empire had numerous environmental and public health issues. The lead utensils and pipes caused lead poisoning of the aristocracy. This was the root of the lowering birth-rate and intelligence level of the empire. Plagues and sickness also made a decline in population. Disease was commonly spread at the Colosseum where blood and death was present. The army of the Roman empire held the German barbarians back for decades. To fight the civil war in Italy‚
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8:2 within the film it is vital to first know that Exodus 8:2 states: “Then the Lord said to Moses‚ “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him‚ ‘Thus says the Lord‚ “Let my people go‚ that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go‚ behold‚ I will plague all your country with frogs.” * Topic Sentence 2: The frogs and Exodus 8:2 references are either an essential component of the film or they ruin it and hold no meaning aside from sheer coincidence‚ the only way t justify the frogs is to bring
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