Bill Haast - A Snake Man

Bill Haast (1910-2011)

A snake man who was bitten by snakes more than 172 times. Bill Haast was born in December 30th 1910 at Peterson, New Jersy. At 11 he was interested in snakes and the same he was bitten by small timber rattlesnake while try to capture but he was recovered without any medical treatment. At 15, he started to extract venom from the snakes. He was director of Miami Serpentarium Laboratory located in South Florida. He extracts snakes venom for medicinal purpose and other research uses in his Serpentarium.  While he starts Serpentarium he holds 500 snakes with 400 cages. 



Haast was bitten by Small Timber Rattlesnake (1921), Four-foot Copperhead (1921), Blue Krait (1954), Cobra bite - 20 times (1950’s), first deadliest snakes King Cobra bite (1962) and also he was bitten by Green mamba. 
His interview in Floride Trends (2008) "Aging is hard. Sometimes, you feel useless. But I always felt I would live this long. It was intuitive. I always told people I'd live past 100, and I still feel I will. Is it the venom? I don't know." Bill Haast turned 100 and died at June 11th 2011.

Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King. Jr means Non-violence, Modern American Liberalism, Peace movement and African-American Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther King, Jr (1929 – 1968), was a great social activist and the leader for African-American Civil Rights Movement. He works for the African American people and their basic civil rights in the country. During his period the black peoples were consider as a secondary citizen in the country even thought they fought for American Freedom. King raises his voice against the racial discrimination in the country through non-violence which is introduced by “Mohands Karamchand Gandhi” (Father of India).

King proves he is an eminent speaker through his reputation among American People and he established prominent place in American history. His famous code “I have Dream” was delivered during his March on Washington in 1963. The Next year 1964, King became the world’s youngest Nobel Prize winner for peace.

April 4, 1968 King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis. On 3rd April king delivered his last speech “I have Been to the Mountaintop”.

Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913 – 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist and also she was called as "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement"

Rosa Parks, an African American who travelled in public transport in Alabama, Montgomery. She was arrested for refused to give her seat to white person because the federal law says “American should surrender their seats while the white demanding for it. Even though they bought the ticket they can’t claim the full rights”. 

This incident causes the great boycott against the Montgomery public transport which was called as "Montgomery Bus Boycott". It starts on Dec-1^st, 1955 and ended in Dec 1^st, 1956 (the federal system changes the transport laws against the African Americans). Browder v. Gayle, Martin LutherKing Jr and Ralph Abernathy were played the major role in this boycott.