Tuesday, May 3, 2011

1918 Flu

The Spanish Flu as it was known claimed the lives of anywhere from 50-100 million people from mid-1918-1920. Brought on from the end of the First World War, the disease affected an estimated 500 million (28% of the global population of the time), killing 3% of the world's humans. It spread all over, even reaching the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. While it was not related to Spain, it was given the name due to both the King of Spain becoming gravely ill with it and the fact that the most reliable coverage at the time came from Spain.

Experiemental Forest

We noticed the effects of both erosion and the pine beetle on the forest with some trees having completely fallen over. Furthermore, we noticed the rocks with mosses growing on them, allowing for more plants to grow on top of them. This is me hugging a tree. The relationship didn't last. He had serious commitment issues to work through before he jumped into something serious.

Ocmulgee

The Ocmulgee Mounds commemorate the 17,000 years of habitation of the Macon area. The people who lived here migrated at the end of the ice-age when warmer weather led them south-ward. Around 2500 BCE, pottery shards started appearing in the area. These people would use plant matter in their pottery which would rot away or burn when placed in fire, leaving wormholes throughout it.The mounds were probably built in the early Mississippian Period when people began to use the fertile floodplain to plant crops. Their society remained there and became known as the Muscogee tribe until their culture was obliterated by white, gold-hungry European males, as usual.