The order Primates includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians. Many of them may be familiar, but it would not be surprising if you cannot immediately visualize prosimians (like the ring-tailed lemurs in the picture on the right) .How many living primate species exist today is not clear.he order Primates includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians. Many of them may be familiar, but it would not be surprising if you cannot immediately visualize prosimians (like the ring-tailed lemurs in the picture on the right) .
How did Maine get its nick name?   Maine got its nickname the Pine Tree State from the fact that thousands of square miles of pine trees grow in the northern part of the state.n a paper read before the American Antiquarian Society Hamilton R. Staples said that the name of Maine was given to that State descriptively, since in the original charter it was considered the Mayne Land of New-England ..
NOVA SCOTIA. ORIGIN OF PROVINCE NAME: The area was first called Acadia by French settlers and later New Caledonia (meaning New Scotland from the Latin name for northern Britain). The anglicized Nova Scotia name dates from 1621, when Sir William Alexander, a Scot, was given a charter to colonize the area.