Statues that are down or coming down.

 Andrew Jackson.

In-office from 1829 to 1837, he owned more than 500 slaves during his lifetime and was a key figure in the forced relocation of nearly 100,000 Native Americans.

Several monuments depicting one of his predecessors, US president Thomas Jefferson, (1801-1809), have also been vandalized. He drew up the US Declaration of Independence but owned more than 600 slaves.

And New York City is to remove a statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt, long criticized as a racist and colonialist symbol.

The bronze sculpture of Roosevelt, which has been at the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) for 80 years, depicts the former leader on horseback towering over a black man and a Native American man -- who are both on foot.

US protesters have been avidly targeting statues symbolizing the Confederate States during the American Civil War, which pitted the pro-slavery South against the abolitionist North from 1861-1865.

A statue of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, was toppled in Richmond, Virginia.


Demonstrators in Washington also tore down a statue of Albert Pike, the only one of a Southern Civil War general in the nation's capital.

Earlier in June, in Boston, a statue of Christopher Columbus was beheaded, another vandalised in downtown Miami with red paint, and third was dragged into a lake in Richmond, Virginia.

The Italian explorer, long hailed as the so-called discoverer of "The New World," is considered by many to have spurred years of genocide against indigenous groups in the Americas

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The Confederate War Memorial, Dallas, Texas.
Silent Sam, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (toppled August 20, 2018).
The statues of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson, in Charlottesville, Virginia
Spirit of the Confederacy, Houston, Texas.
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Ancient Toys

Split twig figurines found across roughly 2,000-year-old sites in the American Southwest. (Credit: Dan Boone & Ryan Belnap, Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University)

A Paleolithic rondelle found in Mas d’Azil cave, France. (Credit: ©RMN - Grand Palais (National Archaeology Museum)/Loïc Hamon)

A clay animal figurine from a roughly 8,000-year-old site in present-day Israel. (Credit: Yosef Garfinkel/Wikimedia Commons)https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-ancient-toys-are-elusive-artifacts

We are all made from stars. Periodic table showing the cosmogenic origin of each element.

Periodic table showing the cosmogenic origin of each element. Elements from carbon up to sulfur may be made in small stars by the alpha process. Elements beyond iron are made in large stars with slow neutron capture (s-process), followed by expulsion to space in gas ejections (see planetary nebulae). Elements heavier than iron may be made in neutron star mergers or supernovae after the r-process, involving a dense burst of neutrons and rapid capture by the element.
It is thought that the primordial nucleons themselves were formed from the quark–gluon plasma during the Big Bang as it cooled below two trillion degrees. A few minutes afterward, starting with only protons and neutrons, nuclei up to lithium and beryllium (both with mass number 7) were formed, but the abundances of other elements dropped sharply with growing atomic mass. Some boron may have been formed at this time, but the process stopped before significant carbon could be formed, as this element requires a far higher product of helium density and time than were present in the short nucleosynthesis period of the Big Bang. That fusion process essentially shut down at about 20 minutes, due to drops in temperature and density as the universe continued to expand. This first process, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, was the first type of nucleogenesis to occur in the universe.
The subsequent nucleosynthesis of the heavier elements requires the extreme temperatures and pressures found within stars and supernovas.