"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880. At the age of two she suffered an illness that left her blind and deaf.…
The earliest human records appeared about 3,000 or 4,000 BC - Sumerian cuneiform on clay tablets in the Mesopotamian Valley. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson stated in his Cosmos TV series…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Booker T. Washington addressed the racially mixed crowd at the International Exposition in Atlanta, September 18, 1895: "A ship lost at…
Booker T. Washington wrote: "In the sight of God there is no color line, and we want to cultivate a spirit that will make us forget that there is such…
Apollo 13 launched for the moon, APRIL 11, 1970. Two days and seven hours later, command module pilot Jack Swigert said, “Houston, we’ve had a problem!” Commander Jim Lovell saw…
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," stated Astronaut Neil Armstrong, JULY 20, 1969, as he became the first man to walk on the moon, almost…
He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, the sitting Vice-President Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel JULY 11, 1804. Alexander…
Washington, D.C., was in a panic! 72,000 Confederate troops were just sixty miles away near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. What led up to this Battle? Two months before, at the Battle of…
News arrived in Europe that in 1570, Ottoman Turks under the command of Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, captured Nicosia, Cyprus, after a 50-day siege. 20,000 captured Nicosians were executed. Women…
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