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Harlem resident Eleanor Kennedy, left, waits in line during a (coronavirus) COVID-19 antibody test drive at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, in the Harlem neighborhood of the Manhattan. Churches in low income communities across New York are offering COVID-1
Why Does COVID-19 Disproportionately Affect African Americans, Hispanics, and Latinos?
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
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?
A sign at a gas station alerts customers that a business in Queens, which has one of the highest infection rates of coronavirus in the nation, is closed on April 3, 2020 in New York City. (covid-19, pandemic)
How is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Calculated?
People wearing surgical masks (also called face mask or medical masks or safety masks) walk through the city center of Milan, Italy on Feb. 23, 2020. Coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic
How Do Face Masks Control the Spread of Disease?
Artificial lung ventilation monitor in the intensive care unit. Nurse with medical equipment. Ventilation of the lungs with oxygen. COVID-19 and coronavirus identification. Pandemic.
How Does A Ventilator Work?
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: Scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (orange)-also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19 isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (green) cultured in the lab.
COVID-19 Terminology Explained
Health care workers tend to patients at the drive-in center at ProHealth Care on March 18, 2020 in Jericho, New York. The facility offers COVID-19 testing as more than 200,000 people in at least 144 countries have been infected, with deaths in the....
Who Can Declare a Pandemic and What Criteria Are Required for an Outbreak to Be Called a Pandemic?
Illustration by the CDC, reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes on the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus,
Is There a Cure for Coronavirus?
Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium
When Was the Periodic Table Invented?
Chlorophyll pigment in chloroplasts within plant cells. Microscopic organelles photosynthesis green
What did Jan Ingenhousz discover about photosynthesis?
This is a July 3, 1960 file photo of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo.
How did Patrice Lumumba die?
Roald Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen. (1872-1928). Norwegian explorer, South Pole, 1911. Amundsen led first expedition to reach South Pole, arriving December 1911, one month before ill-fated British expedition commanded by Captain Scott. (see notes)
What were the circumstances that surrounded Roald Amundsen’s death?
The Nautilus submarine cuts through the deep ocean amidst millions of squid and other sea creatures from Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," 1870.
Did Jules Verne Invent the Submarine?
British philosopher and economist Jeremy Bentham's preserved skeleton in his own clothes and surmounted by a wax head, at University College, London, England.
What Is Jeremy Bentham’s “Auto-Icon”?
Saint Francis Xavier baptizing the infidels by an unknown painter, 18th century; in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico.
How did St. Francis Xavier shape Catholicism?
Senator Joseph McCarthy standing at microphone with two other men, probably discussing the Senate Select Committee to Study Censure Charges (Watkins Committee) chaired by Senator Arthur V. Watkins, June 1954
Why did Joseph McCarthy’s influence decline?
Senator Joseph McCarthy during an investigation into Communist infiltration of the government.The Red Scare posed serious threats to civil liberties during the 1950s. Feeding off of the anticommunism that was Cold War dogma, SenatorJoseph McCarthy began
How did Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist rhetoric impact the LGBTQ+ community?
Albert Camus.
How did Albert Camus die?
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy testifies before a Senate subcomittee on elections and rules in an effort to link fellow U.S. Senator William Benton to communism, 1950s.
Did Joseph McCarthy cause the Red Scare of the 1950s?
Alfred the Great riding horse, Alfred of wessex
What was Alfred like as a governor of his kingdom?
Statue of Alfred the Great in Winchester, Hampshire in south England, near the River Itchen, in the UK, Alfred of wessex
What were Alfred’s military achievements?
Berlin, 1936 - Jesse Owens of the USA in action in the mens 200m at the Sumemr Olympic Games. Owens won a total of four gold medals.
Was Jesse Owens snubbed by Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympics?
Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana in Italian) near Rome, Italy.
What was Hadrian’s architectural legacy?
Statue of the emperor Hadrian at the ancient Agora of Athens, Greece.
How did Greek culture influence Hadrian?
Hadrian, Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
What was Hadrian’s relationship with his Jewish subjects?
Combo image of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to be used in high engagement content only
Was there a feud between William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway?
Engraving from 1894 showing King Alfred visiting the monastery school.
What was the importance of literacy and learning to Alfred’s rule?
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, Scottish historical novelist and poet, 1870. Portrait of Scott author of Ivanhoe. Scotland
What jobs did Sir Walter Scott have?
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, Scottish historical novelist and poet, 1870. Portrait of Scott author of Ivanhoe. From "A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen" by Thomas Thomson and Robert Chambers (London, 1870). Scotland
What were Sir Walter Scott’s influences?
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, Scottish historical novelist and poet, 1870. Portrait of Scott author of Ivanhoe. Scotland
What did Sir Walter Scott write?
Full-length portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated at table with books and top hat, facing right, ca. 1869-1877.
What was Ulysses S. Grant’s policy regarding Reconstruction?
General Ulysses S. Grant at his headquarters in Cold Harbor, Virginia, 1864. Civil War, Union Army, General Grant, General Ulyssess Grant.
How was Ulysses S. Grant involved in the Civil War?
Bird's eye view of a Lakota Sioux Indian camp near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1891. Photographed by John Grabill.
What was Ulysses S. Grant's relationship with the Lakota Indians?
American rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, 1993 (Lesane Parish Crooks, Tupac Amaru Shakur)
Who killed Tupac Shakur?
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC, USA. The memorial was opened in August 2011.
Attendees of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Funeral
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