Mary Anning: Early English paleontologist defied the odds
Mary Anning help to found the early science of paleontology, defying the odds and creating a remarkable legacy of firsts.
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Dana Rovang
Aug 2112 min read
Mary Kay & Johnny: Early Sitcom Pioneers
Mary Kay & Johnny broke all the social norms on TV and pioneered the domestic situation comedy.
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Dana Rovang
Jun 287 min read
Noncombatant Service: Conscientious Objectors’ Fight for Mental Health Reform during WWII
During WWII, many Conscientious Objectors worked to reform mental health care institutions, with lasting results.
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Dana Rovang
May 86 min read
The Globalization of Shea Butter
Read the history of how this seed native to Western Africa has taken over the beauty world.
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Dana Rovang
Oct 7, 20228 min read
James Tilly Matthews: Bedlam patient and catalyst for "Madhouse" reform
The history of James Tilly Matthews and the reform of Bedlam Asylum.
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Dana Rovang
Jan 15, 20226 min read
Intrepid Arctic Explorer: Matthew A. Henson was the first Black man at the North Pole, Co-Discoverer
Icon of Arctic Explorer, Matthew A. Henson, depicting a person in a winter parka.
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Michael Gott
Nov 22, 20214 min read
NIELS STENSEN: MEDICI PHYSICIAN AND FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGY
Used Shark Teeth to Argue for Sedimentation in Rock Creation Niels Stensen (or, Nicolas Steno, 1638-1686) was a Danish anatomist who...
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Julia Chen
Nov 22, 20213 min read
FRANCISCA ROJAS: GUILTY BY FINGERPRINT
First use of Forensic Fingerprinting in Buenos Aries, Argentina Fingerprinting was first used as a means of perpetrator identification in...
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Michael Gott
Nov 22, 20213 min read
JAPANESE TEMPLE GEOMETRY
Japanese temple geometry refers to the practice of carving verbal geometrical problems, theorems, and shapes into wooden tablets and...
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Dana Rovang
Nov 22, 20212 min read
Wingfoot Express Airship Disaster, Chicago 1919
Almost two decades before the disaster of the LZ 189 Hindenburg Zeppelin (1937), Chicago witnessed the horrific destruction of the...
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Dana Rovang
Nov 22, 20212 min read
Bushnell's Turtle
The American Revolutionary War marked a period of great expansion in martime history. One of the most significant developments was the...
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Dana Rovang
Nov 19, 20212 min read
Valentine Greatrakes and the Year of Wonders
In 1666, Great Britain was hit with an outbreak of the plague, the Great Fire of London, and it survived an attack by the Dutch. This...
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Dana Rovang
Nov 19, 20213 min read
John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Comet of 1680
In 1680, The Royal Astronomer, John Flamsteed, gathered observational data about a massive comet that passed Earth. At this time,...
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Michael Gott
Jul 16, 20155 min read
FUGO: Japanese Fire Balloons
THE FIRST INTERCONTINENTAL WEAPON PIGGYBACKED ON THE DISCOVERY OF THE JET STREAM The Fu-go “Windship Weapon” project was a World War II...
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Dana Rovang
Jul 8, 201510 min read
The Illusionists of El Alamein
DECEIVING ROMMEL'S AFRIKA KORPS “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using...
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Brendan Wolfe
Mar 13, 20153 min read
LITTLE ICE AGE
Climate Change was Important Even at Jamestown The Little Ice Age is what scientists call a period that lasted from about 1300 to 1750....
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Julia Chen
Feb 25, 20154 min read
"The Amazing" GRACE HOPPER
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER, MATHEMATICIAN, & NAVY REAR ADMIRAL Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was a pioneer in computer programming who worked on the...
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