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

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Rising temperatures after the last Ice Age led a once barren landscape to flourish with life. The great plains people followed an estimated 30 million buffalo into the region, practiced ceremonial dance and created languages for cross-tribe communication.

In response to his objections to the Catholic Church’s practice of selling indulgences, Martin Luther wrote his 95 theses which led Pope Leo to condemn Luther as a heretic and ultimately the Protestant Reformation.

The Iran-Contra Affair was a 1980s military-industrial complex scandal where Reagan gave tacit approval to his security council to finance the Contras of Nicaragua by over-charing Iran for weapons.

As Ukraine regained its nationalistic identity in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin’s Holodomor Genocide, a forced famine, was intended to break their spirit of independence from Russia.

The battles of Lexington and Concord are recognized as the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War as the Redcoats attempted to seize the Patriot’s military supplies, the shot heard ’round the world changed the trajectory of American History.

On April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes were dispatched to spread the news of a British order to seize the patriot’s military supplies, the final spark that lit the revolutionary war.

Jacques Cousteau was a deep-sea explorer, inventor, documentarian, author and environmental activist who led many famous expeditions and efforts to understand the ocean.