HistoryGuy

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Henrietta Lacks belongs on the list of people who saved the world. She had given to the world of medicine without even knowing because her tissue samples were unethically distributed without her or her family’s consent. #WorldHistory #Heros #Medicine

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Among them were the HPV and polio vaccines, an early-stage Zika virus vaccine, the Human Genome Project (which created a fine-tuned map of the human genome), discoveries about cell aging, and the creation of the field of virology.
#WorldHistory #Heros

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

One of those professionals was Jonas Salk and he used Lacks’s cells to create the polio vaccine. With Henrietta Lacks’s cells, dozens of medical breakthroughs were made possible. #WorldHistory #Heros @JohnsHopkinsDOM

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

To the shock of all the doctors at Johns Hopkins, Lacks’s cells seemed impossible to kill and were growing at an unprecedented rate. The doctors sent samples to medical professionals all over the country, eager to get their input. #WorldHistory #Heros @JohnsHopkinsDOM

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Unfortunately, this abnormality also meant that the cancer cells were multiplying faster than the treatment could kill them. Seven months after seeking help at Johns Hopkins, Henrietta Lacks died. Yet Henrietta Lacks’s cells lived on. #WorldHistory #Heros @JohnsHopkinsDOM

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Treatment in the 50s were limited. Lacks’s condition worsened, her doctor noticed a strange thing while studying her tissue sample. Normally cells in other patients died off quickly but Lacks’s cells continued to multiply at an incredible rate. #WorldHistory #Medicine

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

In 1951, a mother of five named Henrietta Lacks saved the world without even knowing it. She visited Johns Hopkins Hospital for a checkup after noticing a lump near her cervix. Her doctor took regretfully informed Lacks that she had cervical cancer. #WorldHistory #Heros

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

In 1943 he overpowering a night guard with two other Polish comrades. Despite being a war hero, the Russian Secret Police executed Pilecki after the war ended, because he remained loyal to the exiled non-communist Polish government. #WorldHistory #Poland #Heros #Auschwitz

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

He smuggled out dispatches in the laundry about the staggering number of deaths in the camp via the Polish Resistance. It was partially because of Pilecki that the Allies understood the urgency of their liberation movement. #WorldHistory #Poland #Auschwitz #Heros

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

He spent two years there, gathering evidence to convince the Allies that Germans where not running typical prisons. #WorldHistory #Poland #Heroes #Auschwitz

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Witold Pilecki, a hero who broke into and out of Auschwitz during WWII. He was a resistance fighter in conquered Poland, Pilecki arranged to be arrested and sent to the concentration camp. #WorldHistory #Poland #HeroesAct #Auschwitz

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Let tell some story of heroes throughout history for the next little bit because we need more heroes in this world

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Spence's Republic fell finally and forever when he received a letter from the Colonial Minister in London informing him that neither he nor his republic had any status whatsoever and to knock the whole, bloody thing off. #CanadianHistory #WorldHistory #Manitoba #WashYourHands

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

The shoemaker's friends intervened and the "trial" deteriorated into a brawl, with the Republic's president cowering under a table once the revolvers came out. #WorldHistory #VanadiamHistory #Manitoba #WashYourHands

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Outraged by that kind of sauce from one of his subjects, Spence sent two of his "deputies" to arrest the shoemaker for treason, and eventually tried him in one of his constables' homes. #WorldHistory #Manitoba #WashYourHands #CanadianHistory

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

He set about trying to collect taxes to fund construction of a council house and jail. One shoemaker refused to pay, calling Spence and his council a bunch of drunks who used tax money for bar tabs. #WorldHistory #WashYourHands
CanadianHistory #Manitoba

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Scottish-born Thomas Spence’s settlement in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba which fell outside all recognized jurisdictions, rendering it lawless. Spence convinced settlers to form a recognized council for security reasons. #WorldHistory #WashYourHands
#CanadianHistory #Manitoba

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

The federal Dominion of Canada was founded July 1, 1867, but present-day Manitoba wasn’t yet part of it. It was known as Rupert’s Land, and owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, a fur-trading outfit. #WorldHistory #WashYourHands
#CanadianHistory #Manitoba

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Going to tell some fun fairly unknown history stories from around the world over the next little while. Starting with interesting one in Manitoba, Canada. #WorldHistory #WashYourHands #Canada

[HistoryGuy @HistoryGuy9]

Both Eissler and Freud argued that hatred is normal. While Freud view is preserving ones eye and Eissler as a positive tool for fighting injustice. #WorldHistory #WashYourHands #StopHate