This is going to be fun. Maria Popova: Thank you guys for caring about Maria Mitchell. Dean Regas: Oh, definitely. We're going to dive into the life and works of Maria Mitchell, who is ...

The group had a shared mission: Observe a total solar eclipse. Leading the expedition was celebrated astronomer Maria Mitchell, the first American to discover a comet. The eclipse captured ...

MARIA MITCHELL, whose memory was honored yesterday in her native town of Nantucket by the dedication of an observatory and astronomical library, was a woman who deserves to be thus honored.

“We recently became aware that the county had received a potential proposal to develop some airport owned property within the City of Miami Springs,” Miami Springs Mayor Maria Mitchell said in ...

Beyond the threshold is a world shaped by a culture that prized integrity, humility, and equality—Quaker values that nurtured Maria Mitchell, America’s first female professional astronomer. The ...

OK, not really. The reception at Le Bar a Vin was in support of Nantucket's Science Center, the Maria Mitchell Association (MMA). More Palm Beach society news here. Need a break? Play the USA ...

Maria Mitchell was one of them. Born in 1818 on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts, Mitchell was lucky from birth. For her father, a banker and school teacher, encouraged education of all ...

The Maria Mitchell Association has pulled out of the Good Neighbor Agreement with Vineyard Wind. The organization signed the agreement with the wind farm, intended to mitigate the visual impacts ...

On July 6, 2022 the Maria Mitchell Association x the Nantucket Shellfish Association x Fisher Real Estate Nantucket got together to catch up, throw down, and collectively envision the evolution of ...

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