ActiveX controls can be downloaded as small programs or animations for Web pages, but they can also be used for any commonly-needed task by an application program in the latest Windows and Macintosh environments. In general, ActiveX controls replace the earlier OCX (Object Linking and Embedding custom controls).
Robinia pseudoacacia. Black Locust is a medium-sized tree, growing up to 80 feet tall. It is easily recognized by its leaves and paired spines up to1/2 inch long. Black Locusts prefer sandy or rocky soil, and are most often found in old fields, open areas, woods, and streamsides.
Ibn al-Wardi, a Syrian writer who would later die of the plague himself in 1348, recorded that the Black Death came out of The Land of Darkness, or Central Asia. From there, it spread to China, India, the Caspian Sea and land of the Uzbeks, and thence to Persia and the Mediterranean.