Science and Nature
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4.7K4Henry David Thoreau Checks Out the Baseball Fields on Fast Day
April 10, 1856 was Fast Day in Massachusetts, and 38-year-old Henry David Thoreau checked out the fields in Concord, Mass. They were...
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18.2K15The Great New England Sea Serpents
When a New England sea serpent was beached off the coast of Scituate, Mass., in 1970, it marked the continuation of a...
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4.5K5Flashback Photo: Quinnipiac River, Connecticut, 1907
This vintage postcard view of the Quinnipiac River was taken in 1907 from Wallingford, Conn. ‘Quinnipiac’ comes from an Algonquian phrase meaning...
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7.5K3Count Rumford, Woburn’s Answer to Ben Franklin
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
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40.9K22The 1936 Flood That Engulfed New England
The great 1936 flood began on March 11 with a downpour in New England that didn’t stop for 14 days. The rain...
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21.1K6Boys, Be Ambitious! The Japanese Legacy of UMass’s William Smith Clark
Travelling in Japan, if you said to someone, ‘Boys, Be Ambitious!’ you would be readily understood. It’s a widely used expression, and...
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