How heat and humidity affect running performance and how to acclimatize to hot conditions. The human body has the ability to cool itself in hot conditions by sweating. Actually, itâs the evaporation of sweat that causes cooling, not sweating itself. (This is important with regards to humidity.)
Colonial America: Pontiac's Rebellion (1763â1766) was an uprising by native tribes from the Great Lakes region against settlers who were taking over their land.
Photo: Courtesy of the Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian. Pontiac, born on the Maumee River, was the son of an Ottawa father and an Ojibway mother. By 1765 he had become a chief with great power of organization. He traveled widely urging the Indians to organize and remove the Europeans, he likely fought against Braddock in 1755.