Peleg Nye in 1864 had the bad luck to encounter a whale that decided to have him as a snack. As the...
Robert Frost and Elinor White married in December of 1895 in Lawrence, Mass., after one of them finally stopped foot-dragging. The two were...
The year 1902 was just underway. Locked in winter’s icy grip, the nation was still mourning the death of President William McKinley,...
Interspecies Struggles at the Dawn of the Progressive Era Today we know the lobster as a table food, and the cat as...
On this date in 1935, Nellie T. Hendrick was preparing to step down from the post she held for 20 years as...