At the time when Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, "it's said that squirrels could travel from tree to tree from the Northeast to the Mississippi without ever having to touch the ground," Chris Roddick, chief arborist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, told LiveScience in...
The St. Louis Cardinals held off the St. Louis Browns in the 1944 World Series, winning the “Fall Classic,” in six games. The 1944 World Series was notable in being the first where all games were played west of the Mississippi River. Both teams also played at the same stadium, Sports...
100 Amazing Maps of the Worldis an interesting site with a lot of great maps. I particularly like the map showing all of the rivers that flow into the Mississippi river. And finally… What do you get when you take an 862HP Subaru Wagon, strap Travis Pastrana in the driver’s seat, an...
Interestingly, the first discovery of nature’s glyphosate-resistant weeds did not happen in a corn or soy farm, but in the backyard of Monsanto’s chemical factory along the Mississippi river. There, in ditches where glyphosate residue was often discarded, plants had been fighting this particular...