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Washington's first official symbol was its flag, adopted in 1923. While some symbols, including the state flower and state seal, were selected before then, they were not adopted by the Legislature until later. Washington's second symbol was the western hemlock, selected as the state tree in 1947. Fourteen symbols were added between 1950 and 2000.
Washington and his army achieved an early victory at the Siege of Boston in March 1776 but were forced to retreat from New York City in November. Washington crossed the Delaware River and won the battles of Trenton in late 1776 and Princeton in early 1777, then lost the battles of Brandywine and Germantown later that year. He faced criticism of ...
Robert Treat "Bob" Paine III (April 13, 1933 – June 13, 2016) was an American ecologist who spent most of his career at the University of Washington.Paine coined the keystone species [1] [2] [3] concept to explain the relationship between Pisaster ochraceus, a species of starfish, and Mytilus californianus, a species of mussel.
List of flora of Washington This page was last edited on 1 August 2023, at 19:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
2020 - January 21: Washington reports the United States' first case of COVID-19. Washington would record the nation's first death from the disease the following month. 2021 - June & July: The 2021 Western North America heat wave kills 91 people in Washington, making it the state's second deadliest natural disaster on record. [26]
This bibliography of George Washington is a selected list of written and published works about George Washington (1732–1799). A 2019 count estimated the number of books about George Washington at some nine hundred; add scholarly articles with Washington's name in the title and the count climbs to six thousand. [1] [2]
Just one fly can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and is drawn "to the odor of a wound or natural opening on a live, warm-blooded animal."
This bibliography of biology is a list of notable works, organized by subdiscipline, on the subject of biology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms , including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. [ 3 ]