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When: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Where: New Haven Museum New Haven Register… What’s it like to live in the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in the United States? Join us for a multimedia presentation by Warren more »
When: Through October 6, 2013 Where: Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk Is it a Steampunk gewgaw? Well, not exactly. The Victorians were fascinated by new technologies and gadgets like telegraphs, dictaphones and burglar alarms. And you thought it was only us more »
When: Through April 4, 2014 Where: Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven We’ve had a fascination with antiquity for thousands of years. Echoes of Egypt takes us on a journey through two millennia of obsession with ancient Egypt, the Land of more »
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… that in 1667 the colony of Connecticut passed the first divorce statute. While Connecticut was not the first to grant a divorce, it was the first to define the
CONNECTICUT STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY The Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn, presents “Connecticut’s Historic Goodwin Forest.” Steve
On June 18, 1895, Jabez L. Woodbridge of Wethersfield patented an automated gallows. The object of Patent No. 541,409 was “to provide an apparatus or machine by means of which