For 381 straight days, virtually no people of color rode on Montgomery, Alabama buses — and it helped catalyze the entire American civil rights movement.Rosa Parks, a catalyst of the civil rights movement in America.
Following Rosa Parks’ December 1955 arrest, upon refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, the black community of Montgomery, Alabama — which comprised approximately 75 percent of the city’s bus-riding population — organized a movement that would hit the city right in the pocketbook. Read More...
Some are convinced the government uses Area 51 to dissect aliens and study flying saucers. In truth, the classified site has been used to build spy planes — and dump toxic waste.Creative CommonsThis warning sign bordering Area 51 states that “photography is prohibited” and that “use of deadly force is authorized.”
Most mornings, between 3:30 and 4:00 a.m., a plane takes off from a private terminal at Las Vegas’s McCarran International Airport. Read More...
After remaining sealed for centuries, the burial tomb of Jesus Christ at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre was briefly opened in 2016.THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Aedicule (shrine) surrounding the Tomb of Jesus during the unsealing process.
According to the Bible, Jesus Christ was buried in a “tomb cut out of rock” just after his crucifixion. Three days later, he awed his followers when he walked out of the tomb alive. So, if it exists in the first place, where exactly is Jesus’ tomb? Read More...
