On August 19, 1791, the accomplished American mathematician
and astronomer Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter to then-
Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson corresponded prolifically with luminaries from around
the world, but Banneker is unique among them: the son of a free
Black American woman and a formerly enslaved African man from Guinea, Banneker criticizes Jefferson’s hypocritical stance on
slavery in respectful but unambiguous terms, using Jefferson’s
own words to make his case for the abolition of slavery.

Banneker himself was born free in what is now Ellicott City,
Maryland, and was encouraged in his studies of astronomy
and mathematics by the Ellicotts, a Quaker family who owned
a mill and much of the land in the area.

(FOXNEWS) – An American-Israeli researcher translated 3,800-year-
old inscriptions that may predate the Bible by centuries.

A researcher may have uncovered the oldest written references
to Moses, dating back 3,800 years and hidden in an Egyptian
desert.

The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient
turquoise mining site in the Sinai Desert where Semitic laborers
once worked during the Middle Bronze Age.

The Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions date back between 1800 and 1600
B.C. 

They were etched centuries before the earliest parts of the Bible
were written between the 10th and 7th centuries B.C.

The two inscriptions, among many at the site, were first discovered
in the early 1900s, but they’re now being reanalyzed by an American-Israeli epigraphist named Michael S. Bar-Ron.

The expert, who’s also a graduate student at Ariel University, spoke
with Fox News Digital about the discovery.

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2019

Robert Redford is an actor and filmmaker who has received
numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA
Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B.
DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement
Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016,
and the Honorary César in 2019. He was named by Time as one of
the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014.

As the 1992-93 NBA season approached, Larry Bird decided
he could not continue. On Aug. 18, 1992 he announced his
retirement as a player.

After 897 games Bird retired with 21,791 points, 8,974 rebounds
and 5,695 assists. During his career he shot .496 from the floor
and .886 from the free-throw line, retiring as the fifth all-time free-
throw shooter behind Mark Price, Rick Barry, Calvin Murphy and
Scott Skiles.

Bird was named a special assistant in the Celtics’ front office,
with limited duties that included some scouting and player
evaluation. In reality, he spent most of the next five years in
Florida, playing golf and taking it easy.

Larry Joe Bird is 68 years old.

Terence Stamp, the Oscar-nominated British actor who starred
in The Limey, Billy Budd, and as General Zod in Superman, has
died at the age of 87.

Stamp’s death was announced Sunday by his family.

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