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Ellis and Angel Islands | Civics: Links to History
Links to History: Ellis & Angel Islands 1890 1892 Ellis Island opens as an immigration station in New York harbor. 1900 source: The Granger Collection1907 In a single day, 11,…milk, food
(Encyclopedia) milk, liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals as food for their young. The milk of the cow is most widely used by humans, but the milk of the mare, goat, ewe, buffalo,…Baron Munchausen: Voyage eastward-The Baron i...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe This is a very short chapte...A Second Trip to the Moon. Voyage eastward-The Baron i... Voyage eastward-The Baron introduces a friend who never deceived…1904 Men's Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Medalists
Event Light Flyweight (-105 3/4) lb Robert Curry, USA John Heim, USA Gustav Thiefenthaler, USA Flyweight (-115 lb) George Mehnert, USA Gustave Bauer, USA …Women's History Month
A celebration of women's many accomplishments The women of the U.S. Supreme Court Source: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisWomen's History Month Nobel Winning Scientists Nobel Peace Prize…TIME Person of the Year
How “Lucky Lindy”—and a slow week for news—gave birth to a memorable annual tradition The founders of TIME Magazine, Henry Luce and Briton Haddon, were strong believers in the idea…Baron Munchausen: Preface to the Second Volume
by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron insists on the ve...Preface to the Second Volume Baron Munchausen has certainly been productive of much benefit to the literary world; the numbers of…Presidential Assassination Attempts: 1920–Present
Everyone knows about the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, but there is a larger history of attempts on the lives of U.S. leaders. Here are the presidential…Brewer's: Glauber Salts
So called from Johann Rudolph Glauber, a German alchemist, who discovered it in 1658 in his researches after the philosopher's stone. It is the sulphate of soda. Source: Dictionary of…supernova
(Encyclopedia) supernova, a massive star in the latter stages of stellar evolution that suddenly contracts and then explodes, increasing its energy output as much as a billionfold. Supernovas are the…Trending
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