History

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Food Dye Origins: When Margarine Was Pink

Fort Sumter

A Necessary Conflict

And an opportunity for re-examination

Yuri Gagarin

April 2011 Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

Col. Elmer Ellsworth became the first officer to die in the Civil War when he was gunned down by an innkeeper in Alexandria, Virginia.

How Col. Ellsworth’s Death Shocked the Union

It took the killing of their first officer to jolt the North into wholeheartedly supporting the Union cause

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Renaissance Table Etiquette and the Origins of Manners

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Dinosaur Sighting: Vintage Stegosaurus

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Creating an Allosaurus Feast

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Marvelous Macaroni and Cheese

The earliest known recorded mac'n'cheese recipe was scribbled down in 1769

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Always Brontosaurus to Me

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Restoring Nedoceratops: Gored by a Horned Rival?

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Lent in the Fast Lane

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Mardi Gras, Po-Boys and Streetcar Strikes

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Lightbulb Ban Means Reinventing the Easy-Bake Oven

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The Ice King Cometh: Frederic Tudor, Father of the Ice Industry

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March Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

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Hadrosaurus Was Real, After All

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Birthday Cake for Mother Ann, Leader of the Shakers

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Food in the Films of Charlie Chaplin

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What Do We Really Know About Utahraptor?

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Thomas Jefferson's Maple Sugar Love and More Presidential Food Facts

Tasty nuggets of presidential trivia include little know facts, including the answer to who was the first locavore president

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