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A German Doctor Once Tried To Turn Hawaii Into A Russian Colony

Thanks to the Schäffer Affair, as it's known, there was a Russian fort on Kauai for part of the 19th Century.

A Single Tree In New York Grows 40 Different Fruits

For Arbor Day, the story of the Tree of 40 Fruit, a real tree in Syracuse, New York that shows just how many different fruit you can graft onto a single tree.

When George S. Patton Bombed A Volcano

Today in 1935, a military mission you sure don’t see every day: at the direction of then-Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton, American planes carried out a series of bombing runs in Hawaii to stop a volcano.

Blueberries Are Nature’s Bandages

There's a project out of the University of Maine that's found that wild blueberries can help us heal cuts and other wounds.