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Susan Fenimore Cooper, known as her father James Fenimore Cooper's secretary, is now being recognized as one of the nation's first environmentalists.

A citizen scientist bred low-mow, slow-grow grass that needs little water and fertilizer.

How noble lords and ladies, terrified of poison, unknowingly poisoned themselves on a daily basis.

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The “gay, frolicsome and amusing" rhymes of 1970s American prison slang.

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Even though this physician pre-dated germ theory, he was able to track a London outbreak of cholera to one particular water pump.