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February 1996

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Rediscovering an Idaho Photographer

From 1895 to 1912 in her Pocatello studio, Benedicte Wrensted produced telling portraits of Northern Shoshone and Bannock Indians

When it comes to moths, nature pulls out all the stops

Cross-dressing, sucking blood, spitting poison: moths do such crazy things, it's no wonder researchers stay up all night studying them

An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp

What a Difference the Difference Engine Made: From Charles Babbage's Calculator Emerged Today's Computer

The incredible world of computers was born some 150 years ago, with a clunky machine dreamed up by a calculating genius named Charles Babbage

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