Becky Little
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How People Predicted the Weather Before Modern Forecasting | HISTORY (opens the original)
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Before modern meteorological methods rose to popularity in the mid-19th century, people looked to nature and the cosmos as forecasting tools. On August 1, 1861, British naval officer Robert FitzRoy published the first publicly available modern weather forecast in The Times. In it, he predicted the temperature in London would be 62 degrees Fahrenheit, the sky would be clear and there would be a southwesterly wind. The forecast included several cities throughout the United Kingdom, France, Denmark
How America’s Early Fire Towers Helped Prevent Wildfires | HISTORY (opens the original)
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Fire lookout towers rose across North America in the early 1900s in response to catastrophic wildfires like the infamous 1910 Big Blowup. Porcupine Lookout Tower in Glacier National Park, Montana, in the late 1940s. In August 1910, a series of forest fires burned over 3 million acres of land across Idaho, Montana and Washington state. At the time, fire suppression was already a key concern for the U.S. Forest Service, which President Teddy Roosevelt had established five years before. The devasta
5 Discoveries That Illuminate Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ | HISTORY (opens the original)
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Why was part of the ‘Iliad’ buried with a mummy? Plus, four more Homeric discoveries. Statue of a Trojan warrior inspired by Homer's 'Iliad' near the site known as ancient Troy in Turkey. The “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” are two of the most famous epics in history. First composed as oral poems, historians estimate that scribes began to record the stories between the eighth and sixth centuries B.C. Although the poems are attributed to a Greek poet named Homer, they changed as they were retold and re
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