OTD In Space - November 27: 1st Photo of a Meteor

On November 27, 1885, an astronomer made the first known photograph of a meteor. The picture was taken by Austro-Hungarian ...
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The First Known Photograph of a U.S. Presidential Inauguration

A large crowd gathers outside the U.S. Capitol in 1857, to witness the inauguration of President James Buchanan. On March 4, 1857, James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th president of the United ...
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Behold, the earliest known photograph of a giant squid, taken in 1874

Behold, the earliest known photograph of an intact giant squid, taken in 1874. This black and white photo looks more like a prop from an old sci-fi creature-feature than a real life animal. The photo ...
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3 undergraduate students have taken the first photograph of the Mount Lyell shrew

For more than 100 years, scientists have known about a shrew living in the mountains around Yosemite National Park. California designated it a "species of special concern," but nobody had seen it. For ...
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Upcountry History First Photo of a Tornado

TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY BROUGHT YOU BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM. ON APRIL 23, 1884, THE FIRST KNOWN PHOTO OF A TORNADO WAS TAKEN BY A LOCAL FARMER NEAR CENTRAL CITY, KANSAS. THE DRAMATIC ...
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Loch Ness Monster Day: Remembering the first photograph that sparked 90 years of legend

Today in history, 12 November 1933, a photograph was taken that would ignite one of the world’s most enduring legends. On that cold Sunday, a man named Hugh Gray, walking his dog near Foyers on the ...