Science and Nature
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4.8K3Flashback 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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2.9K2A 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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7.5K21Maria 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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6.7K11Old Man of the Mountain Discovered, Hangs on for 198 Years
In 1886, a professor named C.H. Hitchcock urged travelers to hurry up and see The Old Man of the Mountain because he...
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4.0K7Joshua James Avenges His Mother’s Death by Saving 1,000 Lives
Growing up in Hull, Mass., Joshua James saw more than his share of shipwrecks. One in particular sent him on a lifelong...
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4.0KHenry David Thoreau Gripes About Cape Cod Fog
Henry David Thoreau wanted a change in the summer of 1857, and so he traveled to Cape Cod from his home in Concord,...
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