Kamikazes of WW2

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Thomas Edison began his long career as an inventor to resolve his own hearing impairment, filing more than 1,000 patents on innumerable inventions. Edison continued to work into his 80s until his death at age 84.

After Joseph Stalin declared himself dictator in 1929, he began his Great Purge of former allies, Bolshevik enemies, or anyone perceived as a threat to Stalin’s power. Ultimately, the Great Purge extended into genocide of peasants, ethnic minorities and even children.

The modern history of Hong Kong is rooted in the Opium Wars, which resulted in Britain obtaining a 99-year lease on the territory, establishing a financial hub for decades before repatriating Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1997.

The Mesolithic period is nestled between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods and saw the rise of agriculture and animal husbandry to replace the prevailing hunter-gatherer culture, which archeologists and historians believe was an unevenly-embraced advance.

While the Articles of Confederation gave no federal rule to demand money or troops from the breakaway American Colonies, in May of 1787, state delegates convened in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention, creating the U.S. Constitution and later the Bill of Rights.

After WWII, the fast pace in which the Soviet’s achieved nuclear capabilities led to the discovery that design documents had been leaked. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were ultimately implicated as soviet spies and sentenced to death.

After English-speaking Native American, Squanto, helped the Pilgrims survive in a new land, Governor William Bradford called for the first Thanksgiving feast, which lasted for three days.