From the invention of the wheel to the discovery of electricity, historical advancements have drastically altered the course of human history. Historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., and Abraham Lincoln have had a profound impact on the world and continue to inspire us...
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we are further removed from Jim Crow. Juneteenth comes from the black bottom, not from black elites. Not [Al] Sharpton, not [Barack] Obama, not the black cultural or politically connected,” Taylor said. “I think it’s more important than Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday." ...
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was nothing less than a “second emancipation.” The Civil Rights Act was later expanded to bring disabled Americans, the elderly and women in collegiate athletics under its umbrella. It also paved the way for...
President’s go signal, nuclear bombs were assembled on Tinian Island in the Marianas and loaded into the bays of specially equipped B-29s. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a plane piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. It exploded at 8...
The following night, civil rights leaderMartin Luther King Jr. led a service at the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, which was attended by more than one thousand supporters of the Freedom Riders. A riot ensued outside the church, and King called Robert Kennedy to ask for protection. ...
Acute coronary syndromeMean of daily differencesIn patients with ACS, MODD was associated with elevated NT-proBNP. Future studies should investigate whether day-to-day GV in ACS patients can predict adverse clinical events such as heart failure.doi:10.1186/s12872-021-02303-z...
Everyday discrimination and cancer metaphor preferences: The mediating effects of needs for personal significance and cognitive closuredoi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100991Jessica R. Fernandez aJennifer Richmond bAnna M. Nápoles aArie W. Kruglanski c
1 of 4 World's Columbian Exposition: Ferris wheelThe original Ferris wheel, designed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., and built for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. 2 of 4 The Red Man's Greeting, Potawatomi Indian Simon Pokagon's birchbark booklet that he sold at ...
Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965, withMartin Luther King Jr.and other civil rights leaders present atthe ceremony. The act banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-whi...