America's longest-serving prisoner in solitary has conviction quashed. Albert Woodfox, right, and Herman Wallace in Angola prison, in Louisiana. Woodfoxâs 1972 murder conviction was overturned when a US appeals court ruled his conviction was secured through racially discriminatory means.
Next, the Olmec created a complex drainage system. These inventions helped the Olmec survive. In addition to their inventions, they also understood many things in life, such as the concept of zero ,linear time, and gravity.
The Olmec colossal heads are at least seventeen monumental stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. The heads date from at least before 900 BC and are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.