The Space Race began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future". The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1, and later beat the US to the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The race peaked with the July 20, 1969 US landing of the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11. The USSR tried but failed manned lunar missions, and eventually cancelled them and concentrated on Earth orbital space stations
Known as the “Moses of her people,” Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. Tubman also served as a scout, spy, guerrilla soldier, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War.
This is true and the after-dinner speeches did develop in England
during that time and their purpose was mainly to entertain or to state something
important but in humorous way. Any topic could discussed if it was approached
humorously and even though its main purpose was to entertain it could also be a
bit informational and persuasive.
B. Thermopylae
The location of the famous stand by three hundred Spartans against the Persian army is called Thermopylae. The battle itself was called the Battle of Thermopylae.
