Tag: science
Mosquito Nets As Tall As The Washington Monument
A Washington doctor with an interesting name was among the first to suggest a link between mosquitos and malaria. Meet Albert Freeman Africanus King.
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Weather Bureau Kiosk on Pennsylvania Avenue
This photo from 1912 shows a Weather Bureau kiosk at E Street and Pennsylvania Ave., NW. It's a high-resolution image, so feel free to...
Capitalsaurus: Official Dinosaur of the District (Seriously)
Workers were digging a sewer trench beneath a Capitol Hill street in 1898. They came upon a few fossil fragments -- among them, a...