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Posted by: Heather Thomas
Without a flicker of emotion, Russian aristocrat, Prince Felix Yussupov, declared on the witness stand that he killed Russia’s “Mad Monk,” Rasputin. Yussupov described in detail how he helped poison, shoot, beat, and drown him, as part of a larger conspiracy to murder the mystical “holy man,” who had gained powerful influence over the Imperial …
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Posted by: Heather Thomas
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) is an astronomer, educator, librarian, activist, and the first nationally recognized woman scientist in the United States. She discovers a new comet, which bears her name, and calculates its orbit, and adds several new nebulae to sky maps. She also teaches at a prominent women’s college and fights to advance the cause of …
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Women's History
Posted by: Heather Thomas
President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) is a man of many "firsts." Bold and progressive-minded, he's always on the cutting edge and embraces technological innovations.
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Heather Thomas
Rose Cecil O'Neill was an iconoclast in every sense of the word. A self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.
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Posted by: Heather Thomas
Two days after Mississippi is readmitted to the Union on February 23, 1870, Hiram Revels, a schoolmaster and preacher, becomes the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Posted in: African American History, Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers