NAT TURNER, HARRIET TUBMAN, AND ANOTHER MYSTERY TOPIC.

Nat Turner, born into slavery October 2, 1800, on a Southampton County plantation, became a preacher who claimed he had been chosen by God to lead slaves from bondage. On August 21, 1831, he led a violent, disorganized insurrection. He hid for six weeks but was eventually caught and later hanged. The incidents ended the emancipation in that region and lead to even harsher laws against slaves. Believing in signs and hearing divine voices, Turner was convinced by an eclipse of the Sun (1831) that the time to rise up had come, and he enlisted the help of four other slaves in the area.

Harriet Tubman was born in 1820, Dorchester County, Maryland. She was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of bondsmen to freedom in the North along the rout of the Underground Railroad an elaborate secret network of safe houses. After the Civil War Tubman settled in Auburn and began taking in orphans and the elderly, a practice that eventuated in the Harriet Tubman Home for Indigent Aged Negroes. The home later attracted the support of former abolitionist comrades and of the citizens of Auburn, and it continued in existence for some years after her death. In the late 1860s and again in the late 1890s she applied for a federal pension for her Civil War services.

Catfish are raised in fresh water ponds only about four to six feet deep. Farm raised catfish are taught to eat feed pellets that float on top of the water. Wild catfish are bottom feeders. One catfish can lay up to 4,000 eggs a year per pound of body weight. Young catfish are called "sac fry" because they still live off of the food supplied by the yolk sacs. 

 Here is a picture of a Catfish!

 

John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, And A Mystery Topic.

John Brown was born in Connecticut in 1800, raised in Ohio, moved to Kansas in 1855. In 1856 he led a raid on a pro-slavery group, killing five. In 1859 he lead a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, intending to use the weapons to arm the slaves and lead them in a revolt. He and his men were captured by troops led by General Robert E. Lee. He was executed by hanging on December 2, 1859. John Brown was a fervent abolitionist who was accused of massacring pro-slavery.

Here are some facts about Abraham Lincoln. He was born on February 12th 1809, and died April 15th 1865 at the age of fifty six. His home state is Illinois. His party was Republican and he was president for four years from 1861-1865, when he was assassinated. His vice presidents names where Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson. He was the sixteenth president of the United States of America.

The brilliantly colored Clownfish gets its name from its distinctive black and white markings. Clownfish belong to a group of small, brightly colored fish called damselfish. These inshore reef dwellers have developed a curious and potentially deadly relationship with the sea anemone. Clownfish lay their eggs in batches on the clear coral or rock adjacent to the anemone, or at the base of the male guards the eggs until they hatch 4-5 days later. In some species of clownfish, the male cares for the young until they reach sexual maturity, at which time they leave to find their own host anemone. Most clownfish spawn on coral near their host anemone or within the anemone itself.