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The Tempest Prognosticator Used Leeches To Predict Stormy Weather

Today was the birthday in 1794 of George Merryweather, the inventor of his era’s most fascinating leech-based weather predicting contraption: the tempest prognosticator. 

There Was A Movement To Make Sicily Part Of The US

On this day in 1943, an interesting headline in the New York Times: “Sicily Vying With Hawaii To Become 49th U.S. State.”