How can some people live to 113?
The older you get, the healthier you have been. That’s the finding of research by the Boston University School of Medicine. People who live longer and…
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Famous centenarians
Bob Hope (died 2003), George Burns (1996), Irving Berlin (died 1989), and Grandma Moses, who started her painting career at age 80 and lived to celebrate…
Anne Dudley Bradstreet Day, Sept. 16 The secret poet of the Colonies
The first American poet to be published had to keep her book a secret. Anne Dudley Bradstreet was forced to pretend she knew nothing of the publication of…
The great cone ice cream cone controversy
While you’re enjoying your favorite ice cream on National Ice Cream Cone Day, September 22, think about the container. Is it waffle cone, sugar cone, or a…
National Park Service celebrates 100th birthday
Just two weeks after President Woodrow Wilson signed the congressional document creating Lassen Volcanic National Park (August 6, 1916), he set up the…
Dangerous and beautiful: Lassen Volcanic National Park hits 100
Lassen Peak has been sleeping since 1921, but the volcano that forms the focus of the national park is considered armed and dangerous. August 9, Lassen…
Calamity Jane figured she would be a legend
“I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.” Calamity Jane, the self-styled heroine and cowgirl of the Wild West, said…
Gold! Free for the taking! Miners making millions!
In August of 1896, after three prospectors discovered gold in a branch of the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory along the Alaskan border, news…
Health in the News: Snail molecules, more
Lab-grown blood vessels For kidney dialysis patients ongoing use of needles damages blood vessels, but a new project has created lab-grown blood vessels…
Political fireworks likely in July conventions
If you think your fireworks were explosive on the 4th, just wait until the end of the month. Both the Republican and Democrat National Convention take…