Henrietta Lacks

The phrase banana republic was coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry .

The immortal Zhang shooting at the Tiangou

01Winnie Mandela personally assaulted the abducted youths at her home before Jerry Richardson cut Stompie Seipei's throat with garden shears.
02The Methodist minister whose manse was raided, Paul Verryn, was falsely accused of sexual abuse by Winnie Mandela to justify the kidnapping.
03Despite her 1991 conviction, Winnie Mandela served as Deputy Minister of Arts in South Africa's first post-apartheid government in 1994.

Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. 's cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum

In 1951, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins took a biopsy from Henrietta Lacks's cervix without telling her; her cells, labeled HeLa, became the first immortal human cell line, now totaling over 20 metric tons grown worldwide.