Today in History - September 1 https://t.co/A5ujxzu6rk On September 1, 1773, Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published in London, England. Wheatley’s collection was the first volume of poetry by an African-American poet to be published…
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Quote of the Day: "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." - Confucius
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If you're currently scrolling Twitter on a fiberoptic connection — and if you aren't, you should upgrade 😉 — you can thank Alexander Graham Bell. His experiments at his L St. laboratory in D.C. played a critical role in developing the technology: https://t.co/2icDRbjNx3 If y…
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Did you know that in the 1970s, the Italian mafia ran drugs out of a pizza shop on 14th St NW and even tried to murder an FBI informant, all just a few miles from the FBI headquarters? Surprise: they got caught: https://t.co/8lD2RccKt7 Did you know that in the 1970s, the Ita…
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Lacerta’s Star Outshines a Galaxy via NASA https://t.co/4BHiUKMCeX https://t.co/0wdsopA8J4
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Thanks for the kind words, Donald! https://t.co/IN7VF3LVqG Thanks for the kind words, Donald! https://t.co/IN7VF3LVqG — Boundary Stones (@BoundaryStones) Aug 31, 2022
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A survey of Manhattan Island, this is one of the first civilian aerial maps of a large city. Made by taking photos from a biplane, it was created on Aug 4, 1921, and assembled using 100 aerial photographs taken at an altitude of 10,000 feet! Zoom in here: …
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