Wetlands -- land areas that have been saturated by water long enough to support aquatic plants -- help control floods, filter pollutants, and provide habitats for diverse aquatic species and other creatures. In the marshes of Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park, beaver, muskrats and river otte...
Columbia University is not a predominately black university, but it is ranked high for a college where black students do very well. Columbia University opened in 1754, and was known as King's College. Columbia is a large university with many departments, schools, institutes and centers. The s...
The rise and fall of the economy in the United States has always been directly impacted by what else was happening at that precise moment in history. For instance, the 1960s economy was characterized by the government increasing their spending approximately 3 percent per year to fund social welf...