Hanukkah is the eight-day Festival of Lights. It usually happens in December. At Hanukkah, Jews remember the building of the Second Temple and the Maccabee revolt. Lighting candles on a menorah recalls a certain miracle. The story says a small amount of sacred lamp oil burned in the Temple for eight days instead of just one.
It was 7:55 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Suddenly, this grim message blasted out of speakers on the battleship Oklahoma, which was anchored there: “Air Raid Pearl Harbor real planes, real bombs; this is no drill.”
Race in Nineteenth-Century America
In 1861, a harsh conflict broke out in the United States that threatened to tear the Union apart. During the Civil War, which lasted until 1865, the nation fought over the issue of slavery, among other things
Rosa Parks said, “Being the minority, we felt that nothing could be gained by violence or threats or belligerent attitude. We believed that more could be accomplished through the nonviolent passive resistance, and people just began to decide that they wouldn’t ride the bus on the day of my trial, which was on Monday, December 5.”
In medicine, keeping the heart beating is a top priority. But that’s not a simple task, because so many things can go wrong.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
