How did Dorothea Dix's study of prison conditions in Massachusetts and Europe change American beliefs? She argued that poverty causes lawbreaking.
She argued that innocent people are imprisoned.
She showed that mental illness is treatable.
She showed that sanitation decreases disease.

the two atomic bombs dropped on japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today. the uranium bomb detonated over hiroshima on 6 august 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of tnt.

on the succession of solomon's son, rehoboam, around 930 bce, the biblical account reports that the country split into two kingdoms: the kingdom of israel (including the cities of shechem and samaria) in the north and the kingdom of judah (containing jerusalem) in the south.