Maine Woods history

Less than two years later, Plum Creek announced plans to create in the Maine Woods the largest development in the history of Maine. 

Ar human civilization. Indeed, archaeol-Y ogists organize early human history in terms of materials—the Stone Age, in which only natural materials such as wood and stone were available the Bronze Age, in which implements were made of copper alloyed with tin and the Iron Age, in which ornaments, weapons, and tools were made of iron. Copper and iron are still of enormous importance. Copper is used to make electrical wiring, and iron is the main constituent of steel. 

Cellulose is the main structural element of the cell walls of most plants and is also a major component of wood, as well as cotton and other textile fibers, such as linen and hemp. The history of cellulose is as old as that of humankind. For instance, fine clothes and cottons have been recovered from the tombs of the ancient kings of Egypt, the pharaohs. Today, cellulose and its derivatives are used in the industrial preparation of paper and also in the chemical industry as a stabilizer, dispersing agent, thickener, and gelling agent. Cellulose is also a component of dietary fiber. 

The Station nightclub fire was the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. It occurred in Warwick, Rhode Island, on February 20, 2003. Of the approximately 439 people inside the Station at the time of the blaze, 96 people died at the scene, and 4 more died in hospitals during the following weeks. Two hundred fifteen people were injured. The Station nightclub was a single-story wood frame building with an area of about 412 square meters (4,484 square feet). The main entrance on the north side, with double doors, led to a... 

The main contributors of carbon to the interstellar medium are intermediate-mass (1-8 Mq) stars (see, for example. Wood, 1981 Yungelson et al., 1993 Timmes et al., 1995) through the asymptotic giant branch and planetary nebulae phases. A knowledge of the cosmic SFR history, together with a knowledge of the initial stellar mass function (presently still uncertain for high redshift), therefore allows for an approximate calculation of the rate of carbon production as a function of... 

The year 1935 forms a natural division in the history of chemotherapy because of Domagk s discovery of the chemotherapeutic properties of Trontosif, the first of the anti-bacterial sulfonamides. This discovery refuted a prejudice that chemotherapy applied mainly to protozoal diseases, and it opened a new era in medical and surgical treatment. Woods (1940) then discovered that sulfonamides blocked the use by bacteria of one of their essential constituents (/ -aminobenzoic acid). This was in accord with Ehrlich s postulate that drugs... 

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