—regz123455 “My late grandfather was a code talker! He told us about one time being stranded on an island in the Pacific. They ran out of rations and could’ve starved. But some of the Navajo soldiers caught a wild goat and butchered it. Then, they cooked it and ate it.” —crafty_gm (There was a 2009 biopic of Earhart, which was titled Amelia and starred Hilary Swank as the aviator, but it was badly reviewed, earning only a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.) Pictured is Mount Foraker, the Alaska mountain where Coombs’s incredible survival story took place. (Pictured is Alia Shawkat playing Hall in her Drunk History segment.) (HBO released a documentary called Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches this year, if you want to check it out!) (Pictured is Frederick Banting.) And here’s a bonus book recommendation, if you, like me, want to know more: “The book Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg is really good. It covers the different doctors who worked with diabetic patients, the researchers who helped discover and formulate insulin, the pharmaceutical companies who made the insulin, and focuses a lot on Elizabeth Hughes. She developed diabetes as a young girl in a time where it was a death sentence, and the book covers her parents’ struggle with it, her attending doctor who was at the time an expert in diabetes, and how insulin saved her life.” —amandac4b39f8d18
