Science and Nature
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9.6K1The Great Northern Lights Panic of 1719
A spectacular Northern Lights display on Dec. 11, 1719, sent New Englanders screaming into the night. It also inspired Puritan ministers to...
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66.1K3Vermont’s Truman Everts: Unlikely Pioneer in Yellowstone
Two hardy Vermont men, Truman Everts and Henry Washburn, helped fight the battle to conquer the wilderness of Yellowstone National Park, but...
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22.0K54The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950
Over the Thanksgiving holiday in 1950, New England was hit by a monster that was part blizzard, part hurricane. The storm became...
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21.1K19The Rise and Fall of the Wethersfield Red Onion
Every year in Wethersfield, Conn., the local historical society pays rent on an 18th-century warehouse not with money, but with Wethersfield red...
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16.9K8Alice Cogswell Changed the World for Deaf People
Alice Cogswell was a precocious little girl from Hartford, Conn. She was just nine years old in 1814 when she met her...
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7.4K3Poultry Pride Came to the Boston Garden in 1849
November 15 is a red-letter day in the history of poultry breeding; it was on that day in 1849 that the first...
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