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Monday, August 11, 2025
Open today 4 PM - 11 PM
A lady’s slipper and a black squirrel, detail of hand-colored engraving in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby, 2nd ed., vol. 2, plate 73, 1754; the lady’s slipper was grown in Peter Collinson’s garden (Linda Hall Library)
Peter Collinson, an English cloth merchant and gardener, and a Quaker, died Aug. 11, 1768, at age 74. Collinson is hardly known to the general...
Johann Friedrich Gmelin, a German naturalist, was born Aug. 8, 1740, in Tübingen. His grandfather had founded an Apotheke (apothecary) in Tubingen...
Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian/American pharmacologist and physician, died Aug. 7, 2015, at the age of 101. She had been born in Cobble Hill...
Dominic de Guzmán, a Catholic priest, was born in Castile in 1170 and died on this day, Aug. 6, 1221, in Bologna, at the age of 50. Dominic was not...
In the wee morning hours of Aug. 5, 1858, the U. S. Steamship Niagara wended her way carefully into Trinity Bay on the eastern tip of Newfoundland...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, an English poet, was born Aug. 4, 1792.
Henry Darwin Rogers, an American geologist, was born Aug. 1, 1808. Both of his parents were Irish folk who fled their native land in a time of...
John Mullan, an American Army officer, explorer, and road engineer, was born July 31, 1830, in Norfolk, Virginia. He graduated from St John's...
Falcon, the lunar module of Apollo 15, a NASA mission, touched down on the lunar surface on July 30, 1971. This was the fourth Apollo spacecraft to...
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was signed into life on July 29,1958, when President Eisenhower approved the National...
Pierre Jacquet-Droz, a Swiss clockmaker, was born July 28, 1721, in Neuchâtel, now part of Switzerland, but then part of Prussia. Little is known...
Frank Julian Sprague, an American electrical engineer, was born in Gilford, Conn., on July 25, 1857. He is renowned as the principal architect of...
William de Wiveleslie Abney, a British photographer, chemist, and inventor, was born in Derby on July 24, 1843. His middle name is very distinctive...
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