Gerald Ford became the 38th president of the United States following Richard Nixon's resignation, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. Synopsis Gerald Ford was born on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. A star college football player, he served in the Navy during WWII. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1948, Ford represented Michigan's 5th District for nearly 25 years before suddenly finding himself at the crossroads of history.
Definition of fertile. 1  1a : producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive fertile fields of corn and oatsb : characterized by great resourcefulness of thought or imagination : inventive a fertile mindc obsolete : plentiful.
, Volcanoes, where Earth's sweet, hot interior enters the world of life. Volcanic soil is fertile because it is new, having just been erupted out into the upper world. It is fresh, unweathered, and loaded with all sorts of elements that are present in the Earth's crust. When the happy rain falls on volcanic soil it dissolves some of those elements and makes them available to plants.