Science and Nature
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22.6K17The Heat Wave of 1896 Kills 1,500, Launches Teddy Roosevelt
When the heat wave of 1896 finally ended on Aug. 13, 1896, it left behind a record of suffering and death ‘long...
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9.6K4Edward Augustus Holyoke: Leading the Charge Against Smallpox
Edward Augustus Holyoke was born in Marblehead, Mass. in August 1, 1728. He briefly taught school in Lexington and Roxbury before he...
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16.8K9Alexander Graham Bell Takes Up Medicine
The brilliant inventor Alexander Graham Bell found his greatest success with the telephone, but perhaps his highest profile effort at inventing came...
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5.4K3Flashback Photo: The Desert of Maine Swallows the Tuttle Farm
The Desert of Maine is a 40-acre swathe of land covered by glacial silt near Freeport. Scientists believe the silt, finer grained...
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3.2K2A Canoe Trip Down the Allagash, July 6, 1911
The spell of the woods stayed for weeks with Henry Withee and Horace Bailey after they canoed down the Allagash River for nine...
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8.1K21Maria Mitchell Discovers Her Very Own Comet
On a clear autumn night in 1847, 29-year-old Maria Mitchell climbed to the roof of the Pacific National Bank on Nantucket and...
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