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Seventy four thousand years ago, give or take a few millennia, Homo sapiens had a very bad day, perhaps the worst day that we’ve ever experienced. On what is now the Indonesial Island of Sumatra, a mountain called Toba exploded -- though the word doesn’t do justice to the act of sheer geographical violence perpetrated that day. What happened to Toba was a destruction that scientists would eventually coin a term for volcanic disasters of its scale: supereruption. But the eruption was only the beginning. Toba’s aftereffects dimmed the sun and draped a volcanic winter around the world. It might have brought our species closer to the brink of extinction than ever or since. At a moment when Homo sapiens was far from the world-dominating force we are today, Toba was our ultimate trial. It was also a warning -- the most dangerous natural existential risk we face comes not from the skies above, but from the ground beneath our feet. ~ Excerpt “End Times” Author - Bryan Welsh

mnfi.anr.msu.edu/communities/description/10658/floodplain-forest As a result of the dynamic, local nature of natural disturbance along stream channels, a typical floodplain forest consists of many small patches of vegetation with different species composition, and successional stages often correlated with fluvial landforms. Within a single floodplain forest, vegetation changes along a gradient of flooding frequency and duration. In addition to local variation in species composition and structure within a site, there are major regional differences in species composition between floodplain forests in northern and southern Michigan. In both regions, dominant tree species nearly always include silver maple and green ash. Previously, American elm (Ulmus americana) was also a major dominant, but it has been largely eliminated from the canopy by Dutch elm disease. Numerous other species can be important, especially in the southernmost watersheds, resulting in complex patterns of species dominance.

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By early 1830, the British had become the dominant power in India. The Coinage Act of 1835 provided for uniform coinage throughout India. The new coins had the effigy of William IV on the obverse and the value on the reverse in English and Persian. The coins issued after 1840 bore the portrait of Queen Victoria.

This traveled from a remote hamlet of Southern India, first to Chicago, then to Michigan, and now it is in California!!! The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Weed" ~Taraxacum Homo sapiens sapiens call it a weed. Any life form which can think or reason may think the reverse ! In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeam and the stars of midnight. .............. ~Rabindranath Tagore

The monument is located in the southern part of Bangalore the capital city of Karnataka state, India and is easily approachable by road. Gneisses and related granitoids constitute one of the most abundant rocktypes exposed on earth.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeam and the stars of midnight. ............................ "Gardner" ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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