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Ill young black (african american) woman with cold, lying in bed and holding a thermometer in her mouth.
How Do the Symptoms of COVID-19 Differ from Those of Cold and Flu?
Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth president of the United States, date provided c. 1905 - 1945. (Warren Harding, presidents)
What Did It Look Like for a U.S. President to Condemn Racism in 1921?
Shoppers crowd London's Oxford Street (main retail district) on 'Black Friday' discount day in the lead up to Christmas
What Is a Superspreader Event?
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (purple) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. (coronavirus) Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF)...
What Is a Second Wave of a Pandemic, and Could It Happen for COVID-19?
Miners of the Union Pacific Railroad Company shooting at crowd of fleeing Chinese miners working for the Union Pacific. The massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming
What Happened at the Rock Springs Massacre?
Scene from the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey (Juliet) and Leonard Whiting (Romeo), 1968; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
What Are Some Notable Examples of Film Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet?
The tomb of Saint Nicholas in the crypt of the Basilica di San Nicola, Bari, Apulia, Italy
Do the Relics of Saint Nicholas Really Emit a Holy Substance?
Frederick Douglass with his second wife Helen Pitts Douglass (sitting) and sister-in-law, Eva Pitts (standing).
Why Was Frederick Douglass’s Marriage to Helen Pitts Controversial?
Close-up of a blue toned calendar page.
Did a Calendar Change Cause Riots in England?
The Colossus of Rhodes is often depicted as straddling the harbor entrance, but this would have been technically impossible. The statue of the sun god Helios instead stood upright next to the harbor. Seven Wonders of the World.
Why Have There Been Plans to Build a New Colossus of Rhodes?
Mongoose. Banded mongoose. Mungos mungo. Close-up of a banded mongoose.
Do Mongooses Make Good Pets?
Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, 1935. (psychoanalysis)
Is the Oedipus Complex Real?
Group of Women Happiness Cheerful Concept
What Is Intersectionality?
Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) swimming on the surface of a creek. Water Australia mammal monotreme
Why Is the Platypus a Mammal?
Murder victim Emmett Till, undated photo. (African-Americans, civil rights)
How Did the World Learn About Emmett Till’s Murder?
Encyclopaedia Britannica First Edition: Volume 1, Plate XXXVIII, Figure 2, Ark, Ark of the Covenant, a small chest, coffer, contains Aaron's rod, manna pot, tables of covenant, Schechinah, Divine Presence, oracle, shittim-wood, acacia tree
Where Is the Ark of the Covenant?
Frederick Douglass, between 1880 and 1890; photo by George Kendall Warren.
What Was Frederick Douglass’s Position on Women’s Rights?
Lisa Taylor receives a COVID-19 vaccination from RN Jose Muniz as she takes part in a vaccine study at Research Centers of America, August 07, 2020 in Hollywood, Florida. Research Centers of America is currently conducting COVID-19 vaccine trials, impleme
How Is a Vaccine Approved for Use?
San Francisco, California/USA-1/18/20: Womens March at Civic Center marching with signs of political protest regarding equality also embracing 2020 presidential candidates and celebrating equality
How Does the U.S. Government Define the Difference Between a Protest and a Riot?
April 11, 2019 - Minneapolis, MN: Female Caucasian hand holds up a Dr. Dre The Chronic vinyl record album while shopping in a retail store, a classic retro 90s gangster rap album
What Was Dr. Dre’s Role in Creating the Subgenre of G-Funk?
Man with a headache
How Many People Actually Got Lobotomized?
January 21, 2019: Superbowl LIII will be played at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, February 3, 2019 against the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams.
What Was the Super Bowl’s First Blockbuster Commercial?
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.
Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?
American novelist and social critic Sinclair Lewis, circa 1905-45. First American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1930.
Is Sinclair Lewis’s Most Famous Work Any Good?
Mother and juvenile chimpanzees on a tree branch. Taken in the wild in Africa.
Are Chimpanzees Cannibals?
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-BarthAlemy in French) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during th
How Did the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day Start?
Statue of Liberty in front of the skyline of Manhattan, New York City, New York.
Who Was the Woman Behind the Statue of Liberty?
Publicity still from the motion picture film "Black Panther' with (from left) Lupita Nyong'o, Chadwick Boseman, and Danai Gurira (2018); directed by Ryan Coogler. (cinema, movies)
Why Was the Black Panther Film So Popular?
Emergency hospital during 1918 Influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas.
How Long Did the Flu Pandemic of 1918 Last?
Lightning over the outskirts of Oradea, Rom., during the thunderstorm of August 17, 2005.
Does Ball Lightning Exist?
Detail of the head of the Statue of Liberty monument, Liberty Island, Upper New York Bay, New York.
Why Is the Statue of Liberty a Woman?
Newly remodeled science classroom in a high school.
Is It Safe to Reopen Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Charles I of England.
Why Is Charles I Buried with Henry VIII and Jane Seymour?
King George V of Britain, c. 1910, shortly after his accession to the throne
How Did King George V Really Die?
Coronavirus - Disinfection workers wearing masks spray anti-septic solution at the Incheon International Airport on January 27, 2020 in Incheon, South Korea. COVID-19 Epidemic pandemic
Questions About COVID-19 Answered
William of Ockham, circa 1280 - 10.4.1349, English theologist and philosopher, portrait, later portrayal,
Is Occam’s Razor Always True?
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