Only
two days left in the year! This “holiday” has been declared to
remind you to GET THINGS DONE! Maybe the things you wanted to
accomplish in 2011 can still be ticked off your list before the clock
tocks "2012"!Also on this date:
Happy
Birthday, Joaquin de Acosta!
This
Colombian explorer and scientist was born on this day in 1800. He did
a scientific survey of his country, studying its topography, its
natural history, and traces of its aboriginal inhabitants.
Wh-wh-what?
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| Pico Cristóbal Colón, the highest mountain of Colombia |
Topography
is the study of the Earth's surface features – the shapes and
elevations of mountains and valleys and so forth.
Natural
history is the study of the plants and animals native to a place (in
other words, not the ones people brought from somewhere else, but the
plants and animals that naturally grew in an area).
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| A crab-eating fox |
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| The "Lost City" |
Aboriginal
inhabitants means people who have lived in an area from the earliest
times that people lived in that place. You can see the word
“original” inside the word “aboriginal.” The “original”
inhabitants of the U.S. were the Native Americans, also known as
Indians.
Enjoy...
...this short video that shows some of the topography, animals and plants,
and traces of aboriginal inhabitants of Colombia.
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