Presented as a means for assessing whether voters were educated enough to vote, literacy tests and other methods were designed for a single purpose: to stop Black Americans from voting.Getty ImagesAfrican Americans, led by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., line up in front of the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama to register to vote.
With the South’s defeat at the end of the American Civil War, Black men were given the right to vote for the first time in the nation’s history in 1870, and the addition of their voices in the electoral process was set to change the course of American history. Read More...
"We just saw her small head but if the ripples were bigger, I think we probably wouldn't have noticed her at all."Vitisak Payalaw/FacebookThe dog was named Boonrod, or Survivor, by the rescuing oil rig workers.
Working on an isolated oil rig in the middle of the ocean would likely cause many people to start losing their mind at some point. And when workers on an oil rig 135 miles offshore in the Gulf of Thailand recently noticed a dog paddling toward them, they surely couldn’t believe their eyes. Read More...
Pyramids, Peru In 2008, scientists uncovered a buried pyramid in the Peruvian desert using Google Earth and some special algorithms. The pyramid is located underneath a crop field, a mile away from the famous Nazca Lines in the Cahuachi desert.
Researchers used a combination of satellite imagery and infrared technology to peel away the top layer imagery and uncover the pyramid, which is said to extend over an area of 9000 square meters. Read More...
