Also the owner of one of the first Negro League baseball teams, Octavius Catto, a Civil Rights activist and inspiration behind the first public monument in Philadelphia to honor a specific African American person, was sadly shot down on Election Day 1871 by people opposing black suffrage.
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Opening with an unwavering synth hook, here is the 1980s song “Sunglasses at Night” by Corey Hart:
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Here’s a picture of US Figure Skater Nathan Chen:
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Known as the “Father of Texas,” Stephen F. Austin was an American empresario who leant his name to a DI school (Stephen F. Austin State University) and a major Texas city (Austin, TX):
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Here is a picture of the Zenko-ji Buddhist Temple in Nagano, Japan, a city that held the Winter Olympics in 1998: