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According to the NOI, the white race was created with an evil nature, and were destined to rule over black people for a period of 6,000 years through the practice of "tricknology", which ended in 1914. The story and idea of Yakub originated in the writings of the NOI's founder Wallace Fard Muhammad.
Worked as a draftsman for both Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison; invented the more durable filament, which made the incandescent light bulb last long enough to be useful; became a member of Edison's Pioneers and served as an expert witness in many light bulb litigation lawsuits; said to have invented the water closet. [125] [126] [127] [128]
In Peter S. Wells's 2008 book, Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered, he writes, "I have tried to show that far from being a period of cultural bleakness and unmitigated violence, the centuries (5th - 9th) known popularly as the Dark Ages were a time of dynamic development, cultural creativity, and long-distance networking". [55]
Image credits: Isabella Thornton #2 An Early Motorised Scooter. The Autoped was an early vision of today's scooters. This was a personal transport system originally developed in 1915.
Dark Ages (historiography), the use of the term Dark Ages by historians and lay people Early Middle Ages (5th–10th centuries), the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire Saeculum obscurum ("dark age/century"), a period in the history of the papacy during the first two-thirds of the 10th century
The use of dark subjects dramatically lit by a shaft of light from a single constricted and often unseen source, was a compositional device developed by Ugo da Carpi (c. 1455 – c. 1523), Giovanni Baglione (1566–1643), and Caravaggio (1571–1610), the last of whom was crucial in developing the style of tenebrism, where dramatic chiaroscuro ...
The Devil Rides Out (1934) – a novel by Dennis Wheatley – made into a famous film by Hammer Studios in 1968. Rosemary's Baby (1968) – a horror novel in which black magic is a central theme. The Craft (1996) – a horror film featuring four friends who become involved in white witchcraft but turn to black magic rituals for personal gain.
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