19th Century
- 1829: Sam Patch, an American daredevil, died in Rochester, New York during a jump into the High Falls of the Genesee River. He had successfully leapt into High Falls one week prior.
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“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)