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2024 MLB Home Run Derby preview: Who will be this season's long-bombs-away champion?
Yahoo Sports· 23 hours agoIt is one of the most delightful events on the baseball calendar, a day that exists primarily...
Calendar of Patent Records - Nature
Nature· 20 hours agoOctober 12, 1849.—The ordinary wire safety-pin was patented by Charles Rowley, button manufacturer, of Birmingham, on Oct. 12, 1849. Though pins of this kind were apparently not known at that ...
Calendar of Industrial Pioneers - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoSir Andrew Noble died.—Widely known for his important researches on guns, proj ectiles and explosives, Noble was born in Greenock on September 13, 1831, and for some years served in the Royal ...
Calendar of Industrial Pioneers - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoSeptember 17, 1823. Abraham Louis Breguet died. —The foremost horologist of his day, Breguet was born in Switzerland in 1747, but at an early age removed to Paris, where he became a member of ...
Naperville entertainment calendar
Chicago Tribune· 16 hours agoHere is a calendar of upcoming entertainment events in Naperville and nearby. Friday, July 12 Family Bingo: 1:30 p.m. at ARRCC Community Hall, 305 W. Jackson Ave., Naperville ...
Prince William Competes in Polo Match as Kate Middleton Misses Event amid Wimbledon Appearance...
People via Yahoo News UK· 12 hours agoWilliam at the Royal Charity Polo Cup in Windsor, England on July 12, 2024. Prince William is...
Calendar of Patent Records - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoJuly 23, 1888.—J. B. Dunlop's patent for the pneumatic tyre is dated July 23, 1888. Though his invention had been anticipated in the year in which he was born, more than forty years earlier, ...
Calendar of Industrial Pioneers - Nature
Nature· 19 hours agoDecember 24, 1872.—William John Macqueen Rankine died.—The author of a series of valuable engineering text-books, Rankine was a distinguished engineer and physicist, and with Clausius and Kelvin ...
Calendar of Nature Topics - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoCommerce and Ducks With the close of the nesting season, the legal restrictions upon the slaughter of birds slackens, and commerce (as well as the sportsman) begins to survey the prospects.
Calendar of Scientific Pioneers - Nature
Nature· 17 hours agoOctober 13, 1866. William Hopkins clied.—The Cambridge tutor of Tait, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Stokes, Hopkins, in 1850, received the Wollaston medal for his researches on the application of mathematics ...
