#OTD in 1967, performers and artisans ranging from a family polka band from Texas, to Mesquakie Indian performers from Iowa descended upon DC for the Smothsonians’s first Folklife Festival. https://t.co/LLXquWU49c #OTD in 1967, performers and artisans ranging from a family p…
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Today in History - July 1 https://t.co/81oM3NKnoa On July 1, 1847, the United States Post Office issued its first general issue postage stamp, a five-cent stamp honoring Benjamin Franklin, the first postmaster general under the Continental Congress, and a ten-cent stamp hono…
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OMG: The Beauty of Ice via NASA https://t.co/6GTGxNX5G1 https://t.co/auWSsJtiDf
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The Perfect Landing via NASA https://t.co/MUvcS8MTYJ https://t.co/IpS1ZGlNOh
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Churchman, a Quaker surveyor from Pennsylvania, produced this hand-colored map for the American Philosophical Society in order to support the proposed construction of a canal between the Delaware and Chesapeake bays. Look closer: https://t.co/0qYFziPkRA https://t.co/JNFRwbADfN…
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Today in History - June 30 https://t.co/bk4DClhGAJ President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Valley Grant Act, Senate Bill 203, on June 30, 1864. The legislation gave California the Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Big Tree Grove "upon the express conditions that …
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Perhaps the nation’s most notorious snake oil salesmen, Harry Hoxsey went toe-to-toe with the FDA, defending his cancer treatments. It took until 1960 for the FDA to put a final stop to Hoxsey’s fake medication peddling operation. https://t.co/dHkORFv9lM Perhaps the nation’s…
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