Several of Borneoâs plants challenge the senses-Rafflesia arnoldii, a parasitic species, produces the largest flower in the world, while the titan arum (Amorphophallustitanum) sporadically blooms into the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world.
Now, with territory up to the Mississippi River claimed and settled and the Louisiana Purchase explored, Americans headed west in droves. Newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term manifest destiny in 1845 to describe the essence of this mindset.
Manifest Destiny âManifest Destinyâ and the Writing of John OâSullivan (Modified) John OâSullivan, The Great Nation of Futurity, 1839. Our national birth (and the Declaration of Independence) was the beginning of a new history, which separates us from the past and connects us only with the future.