Science and Nature
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30.0K7The Deaf Vineyarders Who Talked With Their Hands
During the 19th century, deaf Vineyarders made up a disproportionate number of people born on the island in southeastern Massachusetts. One in...
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3.2K1Zareh Colburn – Vermont’s Mental Calculator
In 1810, Zareh Colburn took Vermont – and the world – by storm with his uncanny mathematical ability. Born in 1804 in...
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3.9K1The 1762 Drought Follows a Cold, Late Spring
A cold April was a prelude to the 1762 drought, one of the worst in the history of New England. It hit...
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2.0KMassachusetts’ Celery Bug Bill
William T. Hopkins of Franklin, Mass. -- known around the world as Celery Bug Bill -- started his working life as a...
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5.6K2New England Places To Visit: Museums, Cemeteries, Battlefields and a Rummage Sale
Even during the dreariest spring, New England holds a wealth of places to visit for history lovers. There are battlefields for the...
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4.4K3The Musketaquid Comes Out of the Cellar
Henry David Thoreau took his little boat Musketaquid out of the cellar in early March 1855 because the Concord River had iced...
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2.7KEllen Henrietta Swallow – MIT’s First Woman Student
In the late 1800s, Ellen Henrietta Swallow broke down barriers to women not by casting off the duties assigned to them, but...
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16.9K18The Red Paint People of Maine
Before the first colonists and explorers came to New England, before even the American Indian tribes lived here, there were the Red...
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16.1K1The Cold Friday of 1810
The legendary Cold Friday of Jan. 19, 1810 brought such terrible winds and frigid temperature that people talked and wrote about it...
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5.1K1Fanny Bullock Workman Shows Rich Brits What an American Woman Can Do
In 1898, a 39-year-old American woman named Fanny Bullock Workman did something that shocked the tiny clique of wealthy British men who...
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