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Jessica Wade Makes Wikipedia bios For Unknown Female Scientists
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Jessica Wade was invited to Buckingham Palace to receive the prestigious British Empire Medal,...
Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
Salon via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAntiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images...
The Christian influences on the British founder of Rugby, Tennessee
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 8 months agoCarolyn Krause concludes a two-part series on Historic Rugby with a review of the life, novels and...
Was serial killer H.H. Holmes also Jack the Ripper? His relative makes a case in Fort Myers
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJeff Mudgett learned the shocking truth at a family dinner: His great-great-grandfather was H.H....
How fake foreign news fed political fervor and led to the American Revolution
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn 1877 print called 'Concord - The First Blow For Liberty,' showing American patriots going off to...
Harry Morgan and His Classic TV Career, from 'Dragnet' to 'M*A*S*H' and Beyond
Woman's World via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOfficer Joe Gannon on Dragnet and Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H are only two of the many...
Inside the AI-Powered Race to Decode Ancient Roman Scrolls
Time via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoHerculaneum Papyri in the National Library of Naples, June 27, 2019. Credit - Antonio Masiello—Getty...
The City Library is one of the world’s most popular, according to new rankings
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe City Library is among the most popular libraries worldwide in new rankings based on Google...
How did Heartbreak Hill get its name? A RI marathon legend was at the heart of that story
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn Monday, in that critical stretch of the Boston Marathon known as Heartbreak Hill, I’m sure he...
30 Colleges With the Lowest Acceptance Rates
Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoIn this article, we take a look at the 30 colleges with the lowest acceptance rates. For more on this, go to 10 Colleges With the Lowest Acceptance...