Science and Nature
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28.5K24The 1918 Flu Epidemic Kills Thousands in New England
As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...
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5.1KNew England Colonists Thunderstruck by the Lightning Storms of 1768
Terrific lightning storms unsettled New England colonists during the summer of 1768, when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict and...
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215.0K31The 1911 Heat Wave Was So Deadly It Drove People Insane
A July 1911 heat wave killed thousands of New Englanders and sent many over the brink of madness. During 11 hellish days,...
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62.8K9Margaret Hamilton, the Woman Who Put the Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong owed his moon walk on July 20, 1969 to a former high school teacher named Margaret Hamilton. It took more...
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8.5K3Albert Einstein Summers in Rhode Island, Connecticut
Even the greatest minds need a rest now and then, and in the 1930s Albert Einstein rested his in New England, spending...
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19.4K6The Great Salem Fire of 1914 Burns Half the City Out of Their Homes
The Great Salem Fire of 1914 was one of the last great urban fires of the era. It followed the Portland, Maine,...
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