Rare Colonial New England coin up for auction, expected to fetch $1 million
With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...
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On Language: The colonizers genocidal act fits the description
A recent article in the New York Times magazine describing the difficulty of applying international law’s definition of ...
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The oldest town in NH is over 400 years old. But actually it's two towns
Together with Portsmouth, Exeter and Hampton, these early settlements became a royal province in 1679, existing under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts from 1698-1741. New Hampshire, named after ...
On this day in history, September 21, 1780, Benedict Arnold betrays cause of American independence
American officer Benedict Arnold met in secret with British Major John Andre on Sept. 21, 1780, with a plot to trade the ...
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Primer on the Only Catholic Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
He was not only the lone Catholic to do so, but being the richest man in the colonies, Carroll was putting his entire fortune ...
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Local History: The Town of Lyme from Old Lyme not Limestone
ABC 50 spoke with the Director of The Lyme Heritage Center, Julie Gosier, about Lyme History. In the video above you can ...
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Ants changed the architecture of their nests when exposed to a pathogen
Black garden ants made tweaks to entrances, tunnels and chambers that may help prevent diseases from spreading.
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14 Former Presidents Who Loved Sipping On Whiskey
Enjoyed by all echelons of the populace, whiskey was a particular favorite among many American presidents, a taste dating all ...
Vomiting muttonbirds, swooping magpies, plovers faking injuries among birds' defences when nesting
As if swooping wasn't bad enough, faking injuries and vomit attacks are also on the list of defences birds use against ...
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Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist
Carcasses of least auklets and crested auklets, which are known for their noisy nesting colonies ... England, has far surpassed the average lifespan for seals and could be the oldest in captivity in ...
‘Station Eleven’ author to share thoughts on apocalypse, survival, and art
This year’s Bale Boone Symposium, “An Evening with Emily St. John Mandel,” is an opportunity to sit with one of most ...
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Free speech rights and the US Department of Political Justice
In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of ...