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Captain Ahab. Ahab facing Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is the tyrannical captain of Pequod. Prior to the events of the novel, Captain Ahab lost his leg while hunting Moby Dick, leading to a monomaniacal desire in Ahab to kill the "White Whale". It is his obsession with Moby Dick that dooms Pequod and her crew, with Ishmael as the sole survivor.
The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [ 1][ 2] is considered black ( Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment ...
In the manga series Komi Can't Communicate, one chapter is dedicated to the game, and sees the characters dressed up as Crewmates. [173] Among Us was also featured as a question on Jeopardy! [174] Among Us is seen being played by characters in the 2022 film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. [156]
By Variety: With the third season of "Orange is the New Black" being released on Netflix (and a fourth season already renewed), Variety has compiled an algorithm to determine which inmate or ...
American flags wave along its main drag alongside black-and-white photos of local heroes who died in other wars fought in the name of democracy. The first jeep was produced here in 1940 at the ...
Sgt. Samuel Smith ( 3rd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment) with wife and daughters, c. 1863–65. African Americans, including former enslaved individuals, served in the American Civil War. The 186,097 black men who joined the Union Army included 7,122 officers and 178,975 enlisted soldiers. [1] Approximately 20,000 black sailors served in ...
Free Negro. Free woman of color with quadroon daughter (also free); late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans. In the British colonies in North America and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not enslaved.
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...