In 1980, the World Health Organizationdeclaredsmallpox entirely eradicated due to the spread of immunization worldwide. It remains the only infectious disease to have been entirely wiped out. Why African Americans Were More Likely to Die During the 1918 Flu Pandemic ...
How an Enslaved African Man in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox. Read more The First ‘Vaccine Passports’ Were Scars from Smallpox Vaccinations When smallpox ravaged the United States at the turn of the 20...
Before meeting, students at Winsor and Sidney often hold stereotypical views of one another: conservative Christians in Montana and the liberal elite in Boston. But by getting to know one another, students find many similarities — like a love for Taylor Swift, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and “The...
Titanic Image Gallery Millions of Americans go on cruises every year. See pictures of the Titanic, the worst cruise ever. Roland Maguina/AFP/Getty Images For many people, the 1970s show "The Love Boat", which was filmed on a real Princess cruise ship, along with the pioneering...
Is it possible that in the few hundred years since Africans had been forced to the Americas against their will that African Americans' mtDNA had mutated enough so as to render the sample useless? In the face of the criticism, Cann and her colleagues took an additional sample of Africans livi...
The 2024 Formula 1 season wraps up this weekend in Abu Dhabi and in many ways nothing is different, but at the same time, everything has changed. First off, you have Max Verstappen. The Dutch driver wrapped up his fourth straight title a couple weeks ago. But his team, Red Bull, has...
Is there urban farming in the idle space of the city? For example, are urban farms in the corners of urban buildings, on balconies, rooftops, parks, and on the roofs of buildings? How large are they? How many people are involved? Is there a management unit? Do the people in charge ...
She was a child prodigy whose brilliance was clear from the start. But the struggles she endured helped make her the Queen of Soul.
And I went up there, and I actually started the same week Mike Brown was killed in Ferguson. And so that, if we’re going to think about the beginning of Black Lives Matter movement, in many ways, it began with Trayvon Martin, but if we’re going to think about that iteration of ...
In a general way, okay signals approval, acceptance, or agreement. People can use it in many different ways. Here are some ways to use the word okay. Voice 2 First, okay can be an adjective or an adverb. It can describe an act or a thing. In this way, it means “all right” or...