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Today in History: July 5, Larry Doby become first Black baseball player in American League
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoToday in History Today is Wednesday, July 5, the 186th day of 2023. There are 179 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 5, 1947, Larry Doby made his debut with the Cleveland ...
How one Buckingham farmer created a lasting legacy for decades of schoolchildren
Bucks County Courier Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMy sisters and I attended public schools our entire childhood. For me in junior high, it was taking shop, learning to type and lettering in chorus. In high school it was high math, literature ...
‘Waves in an Impossible Sea’ and ‘The Blind Spot’ Review: Physics and Metaphor
The Wall Street Journal· 3 months agoBOOKSHELF In 1993, the Higgs boson was at the center of much attention and frustration in the...
The quest for the Northwest Passage was based on philosophy, not evidence
CBC via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe HMS Terror, pictured here in an 1838 painting by William Henry Smyth, was trapped in pack ice...
How to watch the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures online and on TV
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoEvery Christmas, the U.K.'s Royal Institution puts on a set of lectures, each exploring a...
Charlevoix Public Library to host traveling Harry Potter exhibit
Petoskey News Review via Yahoo News· 9 months agoStarting Sept. 5, the library will be hosting an exhibit from the National Library of Medicine...
John Marshall High School finds 1880s grade book featuring Charles H. Mayo during renovation process
Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJul. 19—ROCHESTER — Anyone passing by the statue of the Mayo Brothers downtown probably doesn't spend much time imagining what they were like as teenagers. And yet, once upon a time, Charles ...
Hitting the Books: America might not exist if not for a pre-Revolution smallpox outbreak
Engadget· 1 year agoAs historian Andrew Wehrman explains in The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the...