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After two weeks on the bench behind offensive specialist Joe Douglass, a freak season-ending injury to Douglass during pre-game warmups pushed Chatman into the starting job in Week 3, and he responded with a strong rookie season, leading the Rush in receiving with 74 catches for 1, 068 yards and 23 touchdowns, and earning AFL All-Rookie Team honors in the process.

Douglass and by
Douglass has studied the crystal structure of Af by x-ray diffraction.
Douglass prepared his sample of Af by thermal decomposition of aqueous chromic acid at 300 - 325-degrees-C.
Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.
* Euclid biography by Charlene Douglass With extensive bibliography.
As told in his autobiography, Douglass succeeded in learning to read from white children in the neighborhood and by observing the writings of men with whom he worked.
The sixteen-year-old Douglass was nearly broken psychologically by his ordeal under Covey, but he finally rebelled against the beatings and fought back.
On September 3, 1838, Douglass successfully escaped by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Douglass was inspired by Garrison and later stated that " no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments the hatred of slavery as did those of William Lloyd Garrison.
In September 1848, Douglass published a letter addressed to his former master, Thomas Auld, berating him for his conduct, and enquiring after members of his family still held by Auld.
In a graphic passage, Douglass asked Auld how he would feel if Douglass had come to take away his daughter Amanda as a slave, treating her the way he and members of his family had been treated by Auld.
Douglass further angered Garrison by saying that the Constitution could and should be used as an instrument in the fight against slavery.
After the raid, Douglass fled for a time to Canada, fearing guilt by association and arrest as a co-conspirator.
) Douglass described the spirit of those awaiting the proclamation: " We were waiting and listening as for a bolt from the sky ... we were watching ... by the dim light of the stars for the dawn of a new day ... we were longing for the answer to the agonizing prayers of centuries.
During the war, Douglass helped the Union by serving as a recruiter for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
In 1877, Douglass visited Thomas Auld, who was by then on his deathbed, and the two men reconciled.
On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience.
Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in Washington, D. C. His funeral was held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church where thousands passed by his coffin paying tribute.
* In 2010, a statue ( by Gabriel Koren ) and memorial ( designed by Algernon Miller ) of Douglass were unveiled at Frederick Douglass Circle at the northwest corner of Central Park in New York City.
* On June 12, 2011, Talbot County, Maryland, honored Douglass by installing a seven-foot bronze statue of Douglass on the lawn of the county courthouse in Easton, Maryland.

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Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant, famously quoted as saying, " I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Douglass is noted as saying that " knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom.
Douglass, impressed by Flagstaff's elevation, named it as an ideal location for the now famous Lowell Observatory, saying: " other things being equal, the higher we can get the better ".
", Frederick Douglass quoted Barnes as saying: " There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained in it.
In his newspaper, Frederick Douglass printed a rebuke of Stone's free combination of women's rights and abolitionism, saying that she was diminishing the focus and power of the anti-slavery movement.
Douglass Perry of the multimedia website IGN compared Turok favorably to Doom, saying that the title distinguished itself from other clones by allowing a level of 3D movement not possible in its predecessor.

Douglass and first
The exact year is also unknown ( on the first page of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, he stated: " I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
Douglass later referred to this statement as the " first decidedly antislavery lecture " he had ever heard.
Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful.
Several days later, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket.
Douglass ' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.
In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.
But Douglass also asked, " Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word?
In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket.
At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.
* In 1921, members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity ( the first African-American intercollegiate fraternity ) designated Frederick Douglass as an honorary member.
In 1869, long-time friends Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony found themselves, for the first time, on opposing sides of a debate.
Dendrochronology ( word derived from Greek, dendron, " tree limb ";, khronos, " time "; and ,-logia ) was developed during the first half of the 20th century originally by the astronomer A. E. Douglass, the founder of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona.
Forty-six nations participated in the fair ( it was the first world's fair to have national pavilions ), constructing exhibits and pavilions and naming national " delegates " ( for example, Haiti selected Frederick Douglass to be its delegate ).
* Joseph Douglass ~ Classical violinist, who achieved wide recognition after his performance there and became the first African-American violinist to conduct a transcontinental tour and the first to tour as a concert violinist.
Frederick Douglass generally abhorred blackface and was one of the first people to write against the institution of blackface minstrelsy, condemning it as racist in nature, with inauthentic, northern, white origins.
There was considerable rivalry with the West End theatres, in a letter from John Douglass ( the owner, from 1845 ) to The Era after a Drury Lane first night, in which he says that " seeing that a hansom cab is used in the new drama at Drury Lane, I beg to state that a hansom cab, drawn by a live horse was used in my drama.
The first public school in the community was Douglass Elementary School, founded as a separate but equal school for African-American children in the post-Civil War black community in North Webster.
* Mabel Smith Douglass ( 1874 – 1933 ), founder and first dean of the New Jersey College for Women
Frederick Douglass " Fritz " Pollard ( January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986 ) was the first African American head coach in the National Football League ( NFL ).
He has been most well known for his leadership in abolitionism ; a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with Frederick Douglass, he helped start the National Council of Colored People in 1853, the first permanent national organization for blacks.
In the mid 1840s, a report by Douglass Houghton, Michigan's first state geologist, set off a copper boom in the state, and the first modern copper mines were opened on the island.

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