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Yellowstone Becomes the First U.S. National Park: March 1, 1872

February 28, 2022March 4, 2022

150 years ago, in March 1872, a sprawling volcanic plateau filled with colorful acid pools, gurgling mud springs, and soaring geysers became the United States’

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Vera Menchik, Women’s Chess Champion

December 10, 2020December 9, 2020

“Menchik Mate” from Menchik-Thomas chess game, London 1932 Sat, Jan 30, 1988 – 62 · The Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine) · Newspapers.com The name

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Stories that Haunted the Papers

October 31, 2020October 30, 2020

The frosty fall season has once again settled over the northern hemisphere. For some that means warming up against the cold, while for others it’s

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Unusual Drinks to Try this National Root Beer Float Day

August 6, 2020August 4, 2020

“The soda jerk was a local folk hero” Sun, Jul 1, 1984 – Page 24 · The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) · Newspapers.com It’s National Root

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Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020

April 22, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Inspired by the anti-war movement of the 1960s, this now-global effort was first introduced by

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Newspaper Finds This Week in History

The Leap Year Privilege

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020

It’s 2020, which means another Leap Year is upon us once again! For an event that only shows up once every four(ish) years, traditions associated

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Newspaper Finds This Week in History

Weather Predictions: Not Just for Groundhogs

January 31, 2020January 30, 2020

Groundhog Day 2020 is just around the corner (on February 2nd, for those curious). With it comes the usual hullabaloo surrounding the noble groundhog and

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The 100 Year-Old Plan to Light a Sunless Town

January 24, 2020January 27, 2020

For almost half of every year, Norway’s valley town of Rjukan sees no direct sunlight. Cable cars to the mountaintop allow residents to seek out

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Life and Light in the Dead of Winter

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019

From Kwanzaa candles to Christmas’s electric festoons, end-of-year holidays bring light to the northern hemisphere’s darkest months. Light crackling and twinkling merrily against a frozen

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The War of the Worlds — Relevant a Century Later

November 17, 2019November 15, 2019

H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds has been, since its publication in 1898, one of fiction’s most lasting science-fiction stories. In 1938 a radio

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