Booker T. Washington.
One interesting fact about Booker T. Washington is that he was the first African American to be on a U.S postage Stamp, and he was also an adviser for several American presidents.
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memory.loc.gov memory.loc.gov
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comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance.
Looks like these pamphlets and books include oral history as well. This is helpful because it might tell the story of the African American slaves from a different perspective.
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memory.loc.gov memory.loc.gov
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240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings
When did this exhibition take place, and where exactly did they find these items?
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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during his campaigns against the Achaemenid Empire. After Alexander's death in 323 BC, his empire quickly unraveled amid competing claims by the diadochi, his closest friends and companions. Ptolemy, a Mace
this comment is just for the learning purpose only
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ecourse.auca.kg ecourse.auca.kgFYS.pdf13
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For six days and seven nights
It is strange that almost every event happened in the epic happens in 6-7 days...
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"On him who transgresses, inflict his crime! XI 185 On him who does wrong, inflict his wrongdoing! 'Slack off, lest it snap! Pull tight, lest it [slacken!
...but all people can't be bad...
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'Then at once Enlil arrived, he saw the boat, he was seized with anger, filled with rage at the divine Igigi: "[From] where escaped this living being? XI 175 No man was meant to survive the destruction!"
Why is Enlil so against people? What they did to him?
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the gods gathered like flies around the man making sacrifice
was it appropriate to make such kind of comparison with gods?
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'Even the gods took fright at the Deluge, they left and went up to the heaven of Anu, lying like dogs curled up in the open. The goddess cried out like a woman in childbirth, Belet-ili wailed, whose voice is so swee
Is there actually something Gods could not deal with?
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all the silver I owned I loaded aboard, all the gold I owned I loaded aboard,
so Uta-napishti was a rich man...
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New Year
I know this is kind of obvious but this tells that New Year was celebrated from very ancient times.
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great gods decided to send down the Deluge.
Maybe people did something wrong and got punished that way or maybe just " way too many" people lived in that town.
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1 will tell a mystery of gods.
Why he started talking about it so easily? I thought it was a secret.
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'I was fully intent on making you fight, XI 5 but now in your presence my hand is stayed
I guess he didn't fight him because Uta-napishti was the only one who knew the secret of immortality and it would be risky to fight him without knowing the secret. It's better for Gilgamesh to be in a good relationship with him.
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If, Gilgamesh, the temples of the gods [have no] provisioner
What Uta-napishti meant by this?
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Go, Gilgamesh!
How the scorpion-man allowed him to go? Obviously, as guardian he should have stopped Gilgamesh.
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forefather
Why would Gilgamesh call Uta-napishti his forefather?
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