PLEASE I NEED HELP! ITS HISTORY! ". . . [I]n comes a powerful, short-limbed black in tattered

overcoat. . . . He has made a crop; found everything-mules, feed,

implements; hired his own help,-fifteen men and women; managed

everything; by agreement he was able to have one half; but, owing

to an attempt to swindle him, he has had the cotton attached and now

it is not on his account he has come, but he is owing his men wages,

and they want something for Christmas, which he thinks reasonable,

and he desires the assistance to raise three hundred dollars. . . .

'For I'm bound,' he says, 'to be liberal with my men.'"

Which word best fills in the blank for this description of a scene

in a federal agency during Reconstruction?

a. Reconstruction Division's c. Restoration Department's

b. Freedman's Bureau's d. Resettlement Bureau's

ExplaWe are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.

One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.

Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners.

Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.

Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.

Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations, even by world giants like Mitsubishi Corporation, Georgia Pacific, Texaco and Unocal.

There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.

In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900's. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.

Most medicine men and shamans remaining in the Rainforests today are 70 years old or more. Each time a rainforest medicine man dies, it is as if a library has burned down.

When a medicine man dies without passing his arts on to the next generation, the tribe and the world loses thousands of years of irreplaceable knowledge about medicinal plants.

nation:

lancelot said to the beautiful ellen i c u r a b u t l n (i see you are a beauty lancelot was the greatest and worst of the knights who became the king's champion and undertook quests in the king's name. he became the adulterous lover of queen guinevere, and they had a son named galahad.