Thankful for @nkyhealth for stopping by during our lunch periods to educate our students on the dangers of smoking and vaping on 4/1 Take Down Tobacco Day!
George Crum’s (a.k.a. “Speck”) restaurant on Saratoga Lake. Crum is credited with “inventing” the potato chip while a cook at Moon’s Lake House on Saratoga Lake in 1853
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Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; October 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist, politician and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement,
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Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology
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Alexander Miles (May 18, 1838 – May 7, 1918) was an African American inventor and businessman, known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors.
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Alexander Miles (May 18, 1838 – May 7, 1918) was an African American inventor and businessman, known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors.
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He has the distinction of being the first Black-American patent-holder in history; he was granted the patent in 1821 for his novel method of dry cleaning.[1]
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Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827[note 1] – January 16, 1901) was an American Republicanpolitician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator.
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Garrett Morgan Sr. was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a protective 'smoke hood'[1] that he notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue, a type of three-way traffic light invented https://t.co/3S93ODt3AM
Carl Maxie Brashear (19 January 1931 – 25 July 2006) was an American sailor who served in the United States Navy as a Master Diver. He was among the first African-Americans. https://t.co/ySvxA0oUy7
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, composer, arranger, record executive, conductor, trumpeter, film and television producer and bandleader. https://t.co/s638MHz0b6