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'Spider-verse' Miles Morales actor will honor a Black 'superhero' buried in Fall River
The Herald News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFALL RIVER — The city will give a long-overdue honor to its own Black “superhero” later this month,...
These Inventors Completely Changed the Course of History
Biography via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFamous inventors like Thomas Edison, Madam C.J. Walker, John Deere, and Steve Jobs developed ideas...
What Failed Products Teach Us About Capitalism
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; source images Everyone knows that Thomas Edison found 2,000 ways not to make a lightbulb. James Dyson made 5,126 prototypes...
On This Day, Oct. 11: OPCW wins Nobel Peace Prize for work in Syria
United Press International via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAn advance team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations...
Hitting the Books: Why nobody knows Hiram Maxim, inventor of the incandescent lightbulb
Engadget· 1 year agoIn "The Things We Make, Dr. Bill Hammack, recounts the tale of Hiram Maxim, an irrepressible...
The Oldest Living Directors, from Norman Lear to Elaine May
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBorn in the 1920s and 1930s, these filmmakers are known not just for their history-making directing,...
11 Inventions That Changed the World as We Know It
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoInventing a useful product or process is serious business — turn a great idea into a marketable widget, and you could earn millions of dollars. But that...
‘Jeopardy!’ lets Delaware know it isn’t on the naughty list this Christmas. Tune in.
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s the Month of Giving and the epic game show “Jeopardy!” will gift Hagley Museum in Wilmington...
171 people paid $100 each to buy a sagging Detroit auto plant: What they've accomplished
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoI recently spent a fascinating afternoon at the Piquette Plant Museum in Detroit’s reinvigorated...
Research finds Black inventor Granville T. Woods has stronger ties to Columbus
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe noted Black inventor Granville T. Woods was born in Columbus before the Civil War. He rose to prominence later in the 19th century for patents for a telegraph system that enabled conductors ...
