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.
Find out more about Pontiac's Rebellion. This site includes a map that shows several of the forts. In response, several tribes united behind a resourceful Ottawa chief named Pontiac, who organized what settlers called a conspiracy (another name for Pontiac's Rebellion is Pontiac's Conspiracy) in an attempt to drive settlers back east across the Appalachians.