Residents of New Hampshire, where Presidential hopefuls often court diners at greasy spoons, have come to expect high-level politico drop-ins. Not long ago, a doctor’s office in Portsmouth prepared itself for a visit from the Vice-President. A half-dozen staffers stood […]
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Virtually every Old West aficionado is familiar with Buffalo Bill Cody’s popular Wild West shows, which traveled the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During Cody’s 1890 and 1906 European tours
The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago, an unlucky arthropod was buried alive in a
The History List Store Boston Under Siege: Henry Pelham’s Boston 1775-1776 colored aquatint map in an archival, full-sized print “A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs, Including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brooklin[e], Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, Parts of Malden,
October 21, 2024 On this International Day of Archaeology, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) reflects on nearly half-a-century of archaeological education as we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of Canada’s most storied archaeological programs, the Boyd
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It’s one of many unique things about Earth: Unlike every other known planet in the universe, Earth’s surface is made up of rigid plates that shift, crash into each other and dive into the planet’s interior. But when did Earth’s
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Frenchman Henri Farman was already a celebrated cycling champion, race car driver and entrepreneur when he ordered a biplane from the world’s first airplane factory, Les Frères Voisin. Five months later, in January 1908, he won Ernest Archdeacon’s prize for
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We have been awarded £1.3m to upgrade our analytical research laboratory creating a centre of excellence available to collections throughout the UK and beyond. The award is part of the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council’s new Research Infrastructure
A groundbreaking study on the skeletal remains from the 16th-century English warship Mary Rose suggests that a person’s dominant hand could influence changes in collarbone chemistry as they age. The research, led by Dr. Sheona Shankland of Lancaster University, sheds
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Pesto is starting to shed his brown baby fluff and grow his adult feathers. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium They grow up so fast: Pesto, the viral juvenile king penguin at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, is starting to lose
