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Friday, August 29, 2025
Open today 4 PM - 11 PM
Projectile point found in association with two ribs of Bison antiquus, by Carl Schwachheim, at Folsom, New Mexico, on Aug. 29, 1927; color photograph taken later, Denver Museum of Nature and Science (sapiens.org)
On Aug. 29, 1927, Carl Schwachheim, a blacksmith turned amateur archaeologist from Raton, New Mexico, found a projectile point nestled between the...
The very first issue of Scientific American magazine was published on Aug. 28, 1845, 180 years ago today. It was the brainchild and handiwork of...
On Aug. 27, 1883, the volcano on the island of Krakatoa, between Java and Sumatra, after spitting lava for several months, exploded...
Friedrich Miescher, a Swiss physician and biochemist, died Aug. 26, 1895, at the age of 51.
William Herschel, a German-born English astronomer, died Aug. 25, 1822, at the age of 83.
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, a Swiss adventurer and explorer, was born Nov. 24, 1784, in Lausanne. On this day, Aug. 22, 1812, at the age of 27, he...
Franz Reuleaux, a German mechanical engineer, died Aug. 20, 1905, at the age of 75. Reuleaux, who taught at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin...
George Smith, an English Assyriologist, died Aug. 19, 1876, at the age of just 36. Smith had essentially no schooling and worked as a printer’s...
Josiah Dwight Whitney, an American geologist, died Aug. 18, 1896 (although it might have been Aug. 15, or 19), at the age of 76. Whitney became...
Parker Cleaveland, an American geologist and mineralogist, died on Aug. 15, 1858, at the age of 78. He had been born on Jan. 1, 1780, in Rowley...
Giovanni Battista Benedetti, an Italian Renaissance mathematician and philosopher, was born Aug. 14, 1530, in Venice. He came from a well-placed...
Melville Christie Fleming, a Scottish illustrator of natural history, was born on Aug. 9, 1795, and baptized on Aug. 13. Since the former date fell...
Margaret Burbidge, an English/American astrophysicist, was born Aug. 12, 1919, in Davenport, in Greater Manchester. She studied astronomy at the...
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