The Cultural Nations of America

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In 1957, after a lethal respiratory virus emerged out of Hong Kong, Maurice Hilleman studied the H2N2 strain and predicted a US pandemic. Despite his claims being ignored by government officials, pharmaceutical companies used Hilleman’s work to create a vaccine that saved an estimated one million American lives.

Despite early devotion to General George McClellan from Union Army soldiers, his later dismissal as field commander and anti-war sentiment shifted support to Lincoln’s reelection in 1864.

After surface gold was discovered in the American River on January 24th, 1848, the California gold rush soon brought droves of “forty-niners” seeking their gold mining fortunes.

The first heart transplant in a human occurred on December 3rd, 1967. The six-hour surgery was performed by South African Christiaan Barnard and although the patient died 18 days later, it marks the first successful heart transplant in humans.

A popular icon of witchcraft, the witches’ broomstick has roots in pagan fertility rituals, broomstick dances, and accounts of witches using brooms to fly up and out their chimneys.

Ronald Reagan was an Actor, President of the Screen Actors Guild, Governor of California and President of the United States. An Assassination Attempt was made on his life during his first 100 days in office.

Parliament’s response to the Boston Tea Party was the coercive acts that burdened Boston Harbor and its population with intolerable British authority.