The Encounter occurred as a result of European <span>explorers crossing the Atlantic Ocean, which famously introduced Europeans to the New World in the west. </span>
Winston Churchill is best known as the greatest statesman of the 20th century.He was the prime minister of England. England was one of the United States's closest allies throughout the 20th century, and Churchill was a highly respected, successful leader, so Americans trusted his opinion of the Soviet Union when he spoke of the Iron Curtain in the 1940s.
In 1906 he became the first black president of Morehouse College.
One characteristic unique to Olmec culture is that they produced stone heads of colossal size. These were carved in Basalt and all of them display unique facial feature so that they can be considered portraits of actual rulers. The heads can be nearly 3 meters high and 8 tons in weight, and the stone from which they were carved was in some cases transported 80 km or more using huge balsa river rafts.
They also liked to mix animals to create wonderful creatures such as were-jaguars, a cross between a human and a jaguar, which may have been their supreme deity. It is known they also liked to drink chocolate.
The Pullman strike ended with widespread violence and the President at the time (Grover Cleveland) sent out the army to stop the strikes from obstructing the trains from running. The Pullman Strike was a boycott which shut down much of the passenger and freight trains west of Detroit because of reduction wages. Many of these workers were laid off and had their wages lowered, but did not have their rent lowered which was essentially unfair, as they all lived in towns for train workers.
