Story about Tabitha Babbitt inventing 'first practical' circular sawmill is probably not true
The first documented circular-saw patent in an English-speaking country was granted in 1777, two years before Babbitt's birth ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian7h
Five Penn professors recognized by American Association for Advancement of Science
The AAAS selected five Penn professors from the School of Arts and Sciences, the Perelman School of Medicine, and the School ...
The Bedford Citizen13h
The 250th Anniversary of April 19, 1775 – Bedford
This spring will mark the Semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of the events of April 19, 1775. On that day, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...
Hoptown Chronicle1d
A beaten path to the Dalton kitchen
Grace and Brendan Abernethy are taking their kitchen back to its origin, which will include space for the venerable beaten ...
All That's Interesting on MSN1d
33 Facts That Capture The Strange And Salacious Life Of Benjamin Franklin
It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...
12 Of The Most Iconic Military Helicopters In History
The U.S. Army ordered 65 of the 47Ds, which it dubbed the H-13 Sioux, while the Navy ordered 12, which it designated HTL-2.
Independent.ie3d
When do the clocks go forward, and what do you need to know about daylight saving time?
which allows us to enjoy brighter evenings. The idea of British Summer Time (BST) was first proposed in the UK in 1907 by inventor William Willett. He felt that valuable daylight was being wasted ...
Registration now open for Aiken area summer camps
The City of Aiken Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Department is offering seven sessions of Summer Day Camp at the H. Odell ...
Archeologists unearth signs from 1700s of British control in Florida after centuries of Spanish rule
When the British took control of Florida in 1763, St. Augustine already had extensive Spanish-built defenses, but British ...
When do the clocks change in the UK? Here's when the clocks will go forward this weekend
Every year on the last Sunday in March the clocks in the UK change, springing forward to welcome the longer days. Designed to ...
Ohio University8d
Spring 2025 Class Notes
Mike Schmidt, BBA ’72*, was inducted to the College Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the 2024 class of honorees. Schmidt ...