Lakeside Laboratory, founded by Dr. Thomas Macbride in 1909, is a field station of Iowa's state universities and provides summer classes and research opportunities to college students.
Thomas C. Durant made a fortune smuggling contraband cotton from the Confederacy during the Civil War. The schooners "Julius Webb" and "John Lenthall" were chartered to carry food supplies to Union troops on Fernandina Beach in Florida. John...
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H.M. Hoxie's full name is Herbert Melville Hoxie. A "truck" in railroading is a locomotive or railroad car wheel assembly usually having two or more axels. Trucks rotate freely beneath locomotives and railroad cars in order to allow them to...