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The First Woman To Drive Around The World Crushed Bananas To Grease The Differential On A Model T
Screenshot: Aloha Wanderwell Youtube Aloha Wanderwell. The name itself sounds destined for adventure, and there was adventure aplenty in the 1920s for a young woman eager to see the world. Back then, before the jet age, the world outside your front door was still shrouded in mystery, more than reason enough for the Winnipeg-born Wanderwell…
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The Valkyrie Of The Motorcar Survived The Race Of Death, A Sunken Ship And An Assassination Attempt
Photo: Jules Beau (Wikimedia) What do you do when your husband dies, leaving you a widow at age 27? Do you go racing, compete in motor boating, travel around the world, become a published author, and get involved in a scandal over a nude photograph? If you’re Camille du Gast, you’ll be doing all of…
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Scientists Match Pollution In Greenland’s Ice Sheet To Events From Ancient Greece And Rome
We tend to associate industrial pollution with the modern era, but human civilizations have been contaminating the planet for thousands of years. By drilling deep into Greenland’s ice sheet, an interdisciplinary team of researchers has chronicled the industrial waste produced by the ancient Greeks and Romans over a 1,900-year period, linking pollution to economic booms,…
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Genetic Analysis Suggests Squirrels Contributed To The Global Spread Of Leprosy
Leprosy is one of the oldest known diseases to afflict humans, yet its origin is mired in controversy. A new study, in which 10 strains of the disease were detected in the remains of medieval Europeans, is now complicating the picture even further by pointing to western Europe as a potential launching point for leprosy.…