Science and Nature
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21.5K54The 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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20.5K19The 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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16.3K8Alice 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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7.0K3Poultry 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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7.7K1Remembering Wilson Bentley, The Snowflake Photographer
Were he alive today, Wilson Bentley would be likely putting an end to his travels and speaking schedule for the year and...
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2.9K5George Perkins Marsh, The Vermont Farmer Who Founded the Environmental Movement
George Perkins Marsh, a little-known Congressman from Vermont, gave birth to the environmental movement in September 1847. On that day he gave...
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