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- - - - His hindu name, Deepwali comes from the clay lamps which light the street during the darkest new moon of the years
        
        Hindus believe that the lamps attract Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, so that she can bring good luck
  - - - He defended the rights of Indian Immigrants for 20 years, and he was called Mahatma.
        
        A decisive moment in his life was when he refused to make room for a white person on a train and was invited to get off
        
        He fought the British colonists in India to set his country free from their violence. He started a non-violent protest
        
        India became independent in 1947
        
        He was assassinated in 1948 by an Indian fanatic.
- - - - She worked in a hospital for the Red Cross. Her work inspired her first detective story: The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
        
        Main characters
        
        Her most famous character is Hercule Poirot
        
        The author’s favourite character was Miss Jane Marple, a very clever old lady who could solve any mystery
  - - - He was a doctor but he didn't have many patients., so he had time to create Sherlock Holmes
        
        Main characters
        
        The most popular characters in the history of fiction an in the filmed literary character was Sherlock Holmes
        
        Holmes and his assistant Watson’s famous home address, 221b Baker Street, has been a bank since 1932
- - - - Black people lived in township, they couldn't vote or mix with white people
        
        In the 20th century white people descending from Dutch and British settlers were a minority in South Africa but they governed the country
        
        The United Nations sanctioned South Africa because of Apartheid. In 1990, it became illegal
  - - - In 1944, He joined the African National Congress and fought against unjust laws. Later, he was accused of treason by the government
        
        After the death of a lot of unarmed people during a demonstration, killed by the police, he went to UK to raise support for his fight. When he came back, he was imprisoned
        
        He won the Nobel Price for peace and in 1994 he became the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
- - - - Stars:
        
        Fifty american states
        
        Stripes
        
        Thirteen original states
        
        Red represents strength, white is for purity and blue is for justice
        
        Even on the moon there is an American flag. Armstrong and Buzz were the first Americans to walk on the moon and they also planted the flag
      - Statue of Liberty
        
        It is located in New York City, It is a symbol of liberty and democracy.
        
        In 1885, France sent it as a gift for the USA
        
        height: 93 meters material: copper, but the torch flame is made of gold
    - - White house is the office of the president
      - Is the capital of USA, which is federal republic
      - Capitol Hill is the seat of the parliament, which is divided into the house of the Senate and the House of Representatives
      - The Supreme Court building id the seat of the Supreme Court
    - - Racial segregation started in 1865, during this period black and white people lived separated (bus, school, restaurant, political life)
        
        The first black president was Barack Obama, elected in 2009. He wrote a letter to apologize for racial segregation
        
        In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. She started a campaign for civil rights
        
        Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta. He was the leader of the campaign against racial discrimination
        
        In his famous speech, I have a dream, he hopes for a world where everyone has the same right to live, and is united like brothers and sisters
        
        After this speech, he won a nobel price for peace
        
        He was assassinated in Tennessee, in 1968
        
        In 1955, He organized a boycott of the buses in support of Rosa Parks
        
        It started the Civil Rights Movement a non-violent movement