Ben Grossさんのイラストまとめ

And now, a bit of history. This map shows riverboat and wagon trails around #KCMO in the 1830s.

The main goal was to get to Westport. Why #Westport? That was the last place people could pick up supplies before heading west. There were also freshwater springs nearby.

#LHLLive

@john_overholt So you’re saying that he makes you remember the Alaimo?

#DS9 #badpun

Tonight's #Stellarium experiment: Recreating the 2017 solar #eclipse as it would have been seen in St. Joseph, MO. The star on the left side of the sun is Regulus.

(Unfortunately clouds prevented many viewers from witnessing totality directly, though it still got very dark.)

@icpetrie @__acadame Sounds to me like someone at Emory is a #Starcraft fan. https://t.co/60XgGfBcuC

@neilhimself Another potential namesake for wisteria is American physician Caspar Wistar, who succeeded Thomas Jefferson as president of @AmPhilSociety.

Further details courtesy of @LindaHall_org: https://t.co/QxGpPuhil0

#histSTM #botany

@Jason_W_Dean @CCAHAconserve It could be worse.

(Don't believe me? Turn around, Bright Eyes...)

#rarebooks #badpun

Josiah Willard Gibbs - American physicist, free energy namesake, and proud son of Eli (@Yale Class of 1858, PhD 1863) - is @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day!

https://t.co/RjoSBL10LB

#histSTM #physics
#thermodynamics #Yale

On the publication front, 2018-19 LHL fellow Mira Kohl's new article, "Between Louisiana and Latin America: Oil Imperialism and #Bolivia’s 1937 Nationalization," was just posted online by @SHAFRDH. (4/7)

https://t.co/v2vfKe2rIA

#LatAmHist

@LindaHall_org @MissouriSandT @k8shep @nelson_atkins @Royals @TheEES @OUHOSCollection Wealthy tourists could occasionally persuade local diggers to provide a sneak peek of a newly uncovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

(Some of the women @k8shep is discussing here took advantage of this opportunity!)

#LHLLive

"Making fruit attractive in print is not easy."

John Lindley, English horticulturalist and author of Pomologia Britannica (1841), is @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day!

https://t.co/X0qbbZh52E

#histSTM #aghist
#envhist #botany