Word: columbian
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...existed anywhere else in the world, and that this tendency was carried furthest in north-west Europe. The English colonies in the Americas were subject to weaker controls on the part of the imperial government than was the case in other imperial systems. In addition both before and after Columbian contact, north-west Europe had much less exposure to, and intercourse with, non-European peoples than, say, had the Portuguese and the Spanish. The English and Dutch were more likely to view non-European peoples as lying outside the social contract and therefore beyond the protection...
...reference to the original great oaks on the site, several of which are still standing, with the eighteenth-century name 'Dumbarton,' taken from the Rock of Dumbarton in Scotland." Harvard has owned the property since 1940. Scholars use Dumbarton Oaks resources for Byzantine studies, landscape architecture studies and Pre-Columbian studies. The public has access to some of the resources, including the gardens. And the gardens are famous. Created by landscape gardener Beatrix Jones Farrand, they are probably among the most beautiful in the world...
...natural historian at heart, however, I confess my strong preference for the second path of exploration: a search for possible natural occurrences elsewhere. This Columbian path has served us so well before, and nature's products do tend to outshine our own poor workmanship by manifesting things undreamed of in all our philosophy. So let us seek nature's own replicate--on Mars or a few other potential places in our solar system, if we really luck out (and are willing to content ourselves with simple things at bacterial grade and unfit for mutual conversation); or elsewhere, despite daunting distances...
...collection includes pieces from pre-Columbian America and the Byzantine Empire. As the center's libraries and collections have grown, officials say, so has the need for a centralized facility...