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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
As we approach the end of another year of the Gregorian calendar, publishers and the media provide a look back at their top news stories or ‘best of’ from the past year. Scientific publishers also provide retrospectives of the year that tend to focus on top inventions, such as Popular Science’s Invention Awards (also see …
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Inventions
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Do you want to know where the books at the Library were in 1973?
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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Have you been wishing for something and it hasn’t come true? Well you are in luck. The Geminid meteor shower will be giving us plenty of shooting stars (meteors) to wish upon from Dec. 4-17, and according to Ptolemy (1st century A.D.), when there are shooting stars the gods will be looking down on us …
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about the life and businesses of industrialist Andrew Carnegie.