Oregon Trail. Facts, information and articles about The Oregon Trail, a part of Westward Expansion from the Wild West. Oregon Trail summary: The 2,200-mile east-west trail served as a critical transportation route for emigrants traveling from Missouri to Oregon and other points west during the mid-1800s.
Oolong Tea Health Benefits #1: Act as antioxidants. Free radicals are linked to many signs of aging, including wrinkles, dark spots and certain diseases, even cancers. They are everywhere-in the air we breathe, the food we eat and even the sunlight.
Oolong (Wu-lung) tea originates from China and is actually transliterated from two words meaning âblackâ and âdragonâ in English. Besides its inherent meaning, the two words describe the shape of the oolong leaves in their novel state. Oolong tea goes through a unique semi-oxidization process that ranges from 1% - 99%. Shortly after picking, the leaves are withered and semi-oxidized in the sun then shade dried.