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Louis Pasteur: Part I
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She was just fifteen when she boarded the bus with a few friends for the ride home from school on a cloudy early March afternoon in 1955 in Montgomery…
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Beatrix Potter
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The Carrington Event (1859)
It was a clear and sunny morning on September 1, 1859, as Richard Carrington sat down at the telescope in his private observatory just outside of London…
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The Great Molasses Flood (1919)
The molasses tank had become a fixture and familiar presence above Commercial Street in Boston’s North End — the city’s oldest and, at this point…
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Part VI
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