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Maria Mozart, Katharine Wright, and 5 more super-cool unsung sisters of famous men
3+ week, 1+ day ago (828+ words) stopped her public performances so she could focus on marriage, cutting short a promising career as a musician....
Millennial teacher shares Oregon Trail with her Gen Alpha students and the trauma is real
1+ week, 4+ day ago (440+ words) themselves as “The Oregon Trail Generation” for living on the cusp of the transition from an analog to digital...
became America's first female super sleuth and thwarted an attempt on Lincoln's life.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (566+ words) won over by the argument and hired Warne. She went on to become not only America’s first female private...Express Company, a freight and cargo company. Taking on the provincial charm of a Southern Belle from Alabama,...clairvoyants—and operated…...
In 1870, a man claimed Margaret E. Knight couldn’t have made her invention. She challenged him and won.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (479+ words) use today. Margaret E. Knight applied for a patent on a “Bag Machine” she’d developed, only to learn that...takes shape. Knight didn’t have any of those to rely on. What she did have was a physical trail of her work,......
How a German pigeon named 'Kaiser' became one of the longest-held POWs in American history
3+ week, 3+ day ago (381+ words) of 1917, right as the United States declared war on Germany. For a year and a half, he served the Germans,...German war pigeon in American custody, but he lived on even longer than that. Kaiser was prolific during...
On 9/11, hundreds of ordinary boat captains carried out the largest maritime evacuation in
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (594+ words) hours. When we remember 9/11, we rightfully focus on the victims—the lives lost and changed forever. We...planes. In New York in particular, with all eyes on the towers, one underappreciated aspect of the story...rescue them. While the towers…...