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Onesimus (Bostonian) Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s [1]) was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts. His birth name is unknown. He was enslaved and, in 1706, was given to the New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who renamed him.
In 1721, Boston experienced its worst outbreak of smallpox (also known as variola ). 5,759 people out of around 10,600 [5] in Boston were infected and 844 were recorded to have died between April 1721 and February 1722. [4] [3] The outbreak motivated Puritan minister Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston to variolate hundreds of ...
Dr. Shivel aka Mr. Freeze has returned and is seeking revenge on Batman, who accidentally spilled a freeze solution on him, forcing him to live in a climate 50 degrees below zero. He commits crimes involving diamonds, or "ice", in different forms.
Onesimus ( Greek: Ὀνήσιμος, translit. Onēsimos, meaning "useful"; died c. 68 AD, according to Catholic tradition ), [1] also called Onesimus of Byzantium and The Holy Apostle Onesimus in the Eastern Orthodox Church, [2] was a slave [3] to Philemon of Colossae, a man of Christian faith. He may also be the same Onesimus named by ...
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Joseph James "Joe" Kinyoun was born November 25, 1860, in East Bend, North Carolina, the oldest of five children born to Elizabeth Ann Conrad and John Hendricks Kinyoun. His family settled in Post Oak, Missouri in 1866 after his house burned down during the Civil War. At the age of 16, he studied medicine with his father, John Hendricks Kinyoun ...
Feast. 20 July. In the Acts of the Apostles, Joseph Barsabbas (also known as Justus) was one of two candidates qualified to be chosen for the office of apostle after Judas Iscariot lost his apostleship when he betrayed Jesus and committed suicide. After the casting of lots he was not chosen, the lot instead favoring Matthias to be numbered with ...
Them is an American black horror anthology series, created by Little Marvin and executive produced by Lena Waithe.The series stars Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Alison Pill, and Ryan Kwanten and premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 9, 2021.