Reconstructing the Spread of the Grain Weevil Perhaps the most common, most widespread, and arguably most destructive pest of stored grain in history is the grain weevil Sitophilu...

The Early Iron Age     During the Bronze Age (roughly 3300-1200 B.C.E. in the Middle East), civilizations were limited in their use of iron. Most iron occurred not in ...

题目：     Prosperity in British North America     The British colonies of North America developed at a remarkable pace throughout the later colonial period. ...

Tidal Heating on lo     To understand tidal heating, we must go back to when the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 made close flybys of the moon lo, Jupiter's clos...

The Deforestation of England Today's typical English countryside of rolling green fields and few trees did not evolve naturally. England was originally wooded. Forests of oak and ...

Jazz   Jazz music, an art form original to the United States, originated in the southern city of New Orleans at the turn of the twentieth century. It combined the elements of ...

Debating the Agricultural Diet     An affluent society is one in which resources are ordinarily not scarce and most society members have achieved a general level of econ...

Life on Mars Astronomers strongly suspect that Mars currently has no liquid water, diminishing the chances for life there now. But running water and a denser atmosphere in the pas...

Erratics and Drift   In the nineteenth century, scientists theorized that glaciers (ice sheets) covered much of Earth's surface during an ancient very cold period known as the...

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