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Thursday, August 27, 2026
Open today 4 PM - 11 PM
The graves of three of Franklin’s crew on Beechey Island, 1850, engraving in The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, by Elisha Kent Kane, p. 162, 1854 (The Linda Hall)
On Aug. 27, 1850, three graves were found were found on a remote icy stretch of Beechey Island in the North American Arctic archipelago. The...
Aratus of Soli, a Greek astronomical poet, lived from about 315 BCE to about 240 BCE. Soli was a town in Cilicia, on the southern coast of Anatolia...
William Herschel, a German/English astronomer, died on Aug. 25, 1822, at the age of 83. In the year 1800, Herschel was certainly the most famous as...
On Aug. 24, 2006, exactly 20 years ago today, a solar system body named Pluto, a happy planet for 76 years, was demoted and reclassified as a...
George Bishop, an English astronomer, was born in Leicester on Aug. 21, 1785. Bishop made a lot of money selling wine, and in a mid-life change of...
Martin Frobenius Ledermüller, a German microscopist, was born Aug. 20, 1719, in Nuremberg. The son of a clerk, he studied law in Jena for a year...
Percy Fawcett, an English Army officer and explorer, was born on Aug. 18, 1867, in Torquay, Devonshire. He attended the Military Academy at...
Scipione Breislak, an Italian geologist, was born Aug. 17, 1748, in Rome. He lived at a time when views on the origins of the Earth's rock...
Henri Breuil, a French archaeologist, died Aug. 14, 1961, at the age of 84. Since he was also a Roman Catholic priest, he is usually referred to as...
Leland W. Sprinkle, an American engineer and organist, was born on Aug. 13, 1908. Not much is known about Sprinkle’s early life, except that his...
Ernst Boris Chain, a German/British biochemist, died Aug. 12, 1979, at the age of 73. Chain was Jewish, born in Berlin, and he sensed, when Hitler...
George of Trebizond, a Greek scholar sometimes referred to as Georgius Trapezuntius, was born in Crete around 1395. His ancestors had moved to...
Greenwich Observatory was founded on Aug. 10, 1675, when the first foundation stone was laid.
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