At what point did time begin?

The passing of time is indeed closely connected to the concept of space. According to the general theory of relativity, space, or the universe, emerged in the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago. Before that, all matter was packed into an extremely tiny dot.

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nativists tried to get rid of the immigrants as they thought they were going to ruin the u.s.  

you can talk about what you learned about them. and you can talk about what happened on you're journeys with them. and then you can put all of the thing you learned about them in you're diary.