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Onlyntwo days left in the year! This “holiday” has been declared tonremind you to GET THINGS DONE! Maybe the things you wanted tonaccomplish in 2011 can still be ticked off your list before the clockntocks “2012”!
Onlyntwo days left in the year! This “holiday” has been declared tonremind you to GET THINGS DONE! Maybe the things you wanted tonaccomplish in 2011 can still be ticked off your list before the clockntocks “2012”!n
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nHappynBirthday, Joaquin de Acosta!
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nThisnColombian explorer and scientist was born on this day in 1800. He didna scientific survey of his country, studying its topography, itsnnatural history, and traces of its aboriginal inhabitants.
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| Pico Cristóbal Colón, the highest mountain of Colombia |
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nTopographynis the study of the Earth’s surface features – the shapes andnelevations of mountains and valleys and so forth.
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nNaturalnhistory is the study of the plants and animals native to a place (innother words, not the ones people brought from somewhere else, but thenplants and animals that naturally grew in an area).
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| A crab-eating fox |
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| The “Lost City” |
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nAboriginalninhabitants means people who have lived in an area from the earliestntimes that people lived in that place. You can see the wordn“original” inside the word “aboriginal.” The “original”ninhabitants of the U.S. were the Native Americans, also known asnIndians.
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n…this short video that shows some of the topography, animals and plants,nand traces of aboriginal inhabitants of Colombia.
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nAnniversary of Texas’s statehood
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nMadame de Pompadour’s birthday
