Fredrick Douglass: Slavery, Literacy, Escape, Activism and More

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Canyon de Chelly is a Navajo Nation-owned and operated national park with over 83,000 acres and a continuous lineage of Native American inhabitation.

Nikola Tesla was a brilliant inventor who contributed to early radio technology, alternating current, X-rays and more. Despite receiving royalties from Westinghouse, Tesla would die near penniless and plagued by mental illness.

After MLK’s assassination, his vision for the Poor People’s Campaign of civil rights was brought to reality during a six-week protest in Washington D.C., resulting in clashes with police, arrests, and little in the way of resolution.

Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a family of musicians, but after suffering the death of both parents, Bach was taken in by his organist brother, where Bach would hone his skills as a musician and composer.

With German aggression intently focused on taking control of France, the Battle of Verdun would prove one of the longest, deadliest and most decisive in World War One.

Chimeric Antigen Receptor, or CAR T Cell Therapy uses the patient’s own immune system—with the help of gene-editing technology—to attack cancerous cells, reporting a 93% remission rate for blood cancer patients.

Beginning around 800 A.D., navigators set out from Southeast Asia in double-hulled sailing canoes across vast stretches of open ocean, using star maps, sea swells, current and drift to people Polynesia.