Science and Nature
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14.5K4Six Ways the Little Ice Age Made History
The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on...
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10.0K17 Strange Things New Englanders Did During the Dog Days of Summer
Dogs were said to go mad during the dog days of summer, and New Englanders have certainly done strange things in the...
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Ebenezer Mix’s Last Stand (or Captain Eb Battles a Ghost)
Born in 1776 to John Mix, Captain Ebenezer Mix was part of the postwar generation who opened up the China trade. First...
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8.0K1Perkins Metallic Tractors – Connecticut’s Cure for Everything That Ails You
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...
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6.2K1Josiah Bartlett, Founding Father, Gets Used to Wrongness
Dr. Josiah Bartlett saved his own life in the same spirit he signed the Declaration of Independence: by questioning authority. He was...
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7.8KJustin Morgan, More Famous for Owning a Horse Than Writing Gorgeous Music
Justin Morgan became far more famous for the horse he owned than for the brilliant music he wrote. A little six-year-old horse...
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14.0K12The Great Throat Distemper of 1735
In 1735, a young child in Kingston, N.H., came down with a cold and all of New England would get sick. The...
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52.6K9Six Mysterious Stone Structures of New England
Everyone knows that stone walls cover the New England landscape like honeycombs. But far fewer people know about the region's hundreds of...
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10.0K1The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
In 1880, Dr. George Miller Beard boarded a train for Moosehead Lake in Maine to see for himself the strange lumberjacks known...
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9.7K6Luther Burbank and the Birth of the Russet Burbank
If you’ve ever enjoyed a McDonald’s French fry, you have Luther Burbank to thank. In the 1800s, potato growers were desperately seeking...
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