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.
In 1845 John L. O'Sullivan, a newspaperman from New York, coined the phrase Manifest Destiny.. This was during the time of the Alamo, Texas Republic's dispute with Mexico, the Oregon Territory, the setting of the northern border of the U. S., and the prelude to the Mexican War.