All posts tagged "children’s history"

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  Science and Nature

  Zareh Colburn – Vermont’s Mental Calculator

  In 1810, Zareh Colburn took Vermont – and the world – by storm with his uncanny mathematical ability. Born in 1804 in...

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  Massachusetts

  The Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode It

  In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an...