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 â¢In 1845. these words were written by John O'Sullivan, a democrat leader and editor of the New York newspaper The Morning Post. â (It is) ..our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty.