Science and Nature
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3.4K1A Dirty Shoelace For Sore Throats, And Other Home Remedies
Doctors were scarce in early New England, and the colonists had to make do with home remedies. Some home remedies they learned...
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42.7K60Hurricane Carol, So Deadly Her Name Was Retired
Hurricane Carol, one of the worst to hit New England, was so ferocious the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retired the name...
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6.0K7Martha Ballard: As Good, In Some Ways, As the Best Doctors
Martha Ballard somehow managed to deliver 797 babies in Hallowell (now Augusta), Maine, between 1785 and 1812. She kept her now-famous diary...
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11.7KHenry David Thoreau Ponders the Mystery of the Freshet
Henry David Thoreau was more than an advocate of simple living and civil disobedience. He was also a naturalist who understood that nature...
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2.7K2Joshua Hempstead Gets His Hearing Back
In August 1756, Joshua Hempstead was a prominent citizen of New London, Conn., who, at 77, was haying, mending fences and gathering apples....
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7.8K7Hurricane Diane, 1st $1 Billion Hurricane, Wallops New England in 1955
Hurricane Diane might not have caused so much damage had Hurricane Connie not struck a few days earlier. But Hurricane Diane was...
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