Novel Allen
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.
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From Africa to Jamaica
An analysis of correspondence, shipping records and contemporary newspaper reports reveals the innovation of turning scrap iron into wrought iron, which is mass produced today, was first developed in the 1700's by 76 black Jamaican metallurgists at an ironworks near Morant Bay, Jamaica. Many of these metalworkers were enslaved people trafficked from west and central Africa, which had thriving iron-working industries at the time.
By Novel Allen3 years ago in Earth
Somewhere in time
I would like to be in the shoes of the likes of the American naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who spent exactly two years, two months, and two days in a remote cabin he built near Walden Pond, a lake in Concord, Massachusetts, where his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a woodland. Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
By Novel Allen3 years ago in History
