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10
Jun

This is Mark Twain

Report for the week ending…… of the condition of the telephone at 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Conn. __________________________________________ Explanation of the Signs. + Artillery can be heard. ++ Thunder can be heard. …

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09
Jun

This is Mark Twain

“If you can’t get me the porcelain picture, Livy, do please have a ferrotype taken for me.”—Samuel Clemens to his future wife Olivia Langdon, November 1868 See this and much more at …

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09
Jun

The Remains of an Ancient Armada

Seven hundred years after sinking to the bottom in the seething waters of a legendary battle, shipwreck fragments, pieces of armor, weapons, bones, and other relics lie submerged off the coast of …

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08
Jun

This is Mark Twain

“Mark Twain Receiving a Laurel Wreath from Joan of Arc at the Dinner of the Society of American Illustrators” “Mark Twain was the guest of honor at a recent dinner at the …

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07
Jun

Remaking School Food

On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted 500 chefs from all over the country on the White House lawn for the Chefs Move to Schools program, part of her larger campaign to …

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07
Jun

Edward McCabe on Synthetic DNA

Edward McCabe, co-author, with Linda McCabe, of DNA: Promise and Peril, was interviewed recently on KABC 7 News, following the news that a research team led by scientist J. Craig Venter successfully …

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