All posts tagged "children’s history"
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7.1K1Science and NatureZareh 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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49.6K32MassachusettsThe 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...
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