Has The Last Typewriter Factory Closed? Not Really April 26, 2011 by MARK MEMMOTT EnlargeFox Photos/Getty ImagesA Remington International, circa 1961.…
Month: April 2011
Texas Cherokee Chiefs
by William D. Welge For nearly twenty years certain groups of Cherokees split off from the western band due to…
Kate Middleton Biography
in full Catherine Elizabeth Middleton ( April 25, 2011) With the royal wedding just days away, Prince William and Kate…
Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth dies
Apr 26, 1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after…
Researchers Build a Transistor Out Of a Single Electron
Researchers Build a Transistor Out Of a Single Electron A stepping stone toward quantum computing and artificial atoms By Clay…
World Health Officials Debate Whether To Destroy Last Existing Samples of Smallpox
Smallpox Vaccine Wikimedia Commons By Rebecca BoylePosted 04.13.2011 at 12:00 pm Humanity’s worst scourge, the smallpox virus, may finally wind up…
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Jonas Salk Developer of Polio Vaccine
Biography: Jonas Salk Developer of Polio Vaccine Jonas Salk Date of birth: October 28, 1914 Jonas Salk Date of death: June…
The Polio Crusade
In the summer of 1950 fear gripped the residents of Wytheville, Virginia. Movie theaters shut down, baseball games were cancelled…
Polio Virus
Early Polio History Polio (also known as poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis) is an illness caused by poliovirus. At one time, poliovirus…
