This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Odd Facts and Historical Snippets From Various Fields
Aluminum was produced from kaolin clay in 1947 by digesting with dilute acid and forming aluminum chloride crystals. Stephen Smith became founder of the American Public Health Association after interning at Bellevue Hospital in 1840 and studying typhus homes. The lion passant became the Goldsmiths Hall stamp in London in 1544, and the horseshoe crab is actually a spider-like crab.
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Stephen Smith
American Public Health Association
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Goldsmith’s Hall
London