Andrea Shea
Stories
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Happy 125th birthday to the PB&J!
What's more accessible, reliable and universally beloved than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Turns out this affordable finger-food staple got its start at high tea.
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Happy birthday to the telephone — oh, how you've grown in 150 years!
These days, our phones are basically extensions of our bodies. An MIT historian of science and technology takes us back to Alexander Graham Bell's famous first telephone call on March 10, 1876.
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Boston museum returns stoneware jars made by enslaved man to his descendants
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has returned two stoneware jars to the descendants of the enslaved man who made them. It's part of an effort to restore ownership of objects acquired unethically.
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When the government shut down threatened Halloween bathrooms, a town rallied
During its busiest time of year, "The Witch City" has come together to keep a national park site open — so all its costumed visitors can use the bathroom.
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Zildjian brand cymbals are everywhere. But how they're made is a 400-year secret.
Zildjian cymbal are used by top drummers across the globe -- they've been made by one family, using a secret process, for 400 years.