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Circles in Corn Leave Farmers Forlorn
Crop circles, flattened, geometric patterns in fields of standing grain, have appeared in Nebraska. One theory is that Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) created the ...
A Theater Where Every Movie is Scary
The Alliance Theater building began as the Charter Hotel in 1903 and became a theater in 1938. Theater employees have reported seeing shadowy figures, hearing footsteps ...
Ghost Abound In Nebraska Towns!
Ghost stories (and ghosts?) have been around through the ages. Here are just a few accounts of Nebraska's otherworldly citizens.
A Storyteller's ...
Flashback Friday: “Everything Seems to be Going Backwards These Days”: The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha – Thomas M. Spencer
Like much of the nation, Omaha in 1895 was struggling in the doldrums of the Panic of 1893, one of the worst and longest economic downturns in the nation’s history. Some ...
Timeline Tuesday: A Bogus Detective Agency
Modern attempts to defraud the credulous by offering membership in a group with accompanying benefits in exchange for an upfront payment have long roots. The Omaha Daily ...
Miles Maryott paintings
NSHS 10220-93, Source: NSHS Foundation
Miles Maryott was born in Burt County, Nebraska in 1873. During his early years he played professional baseball in a number ...
Marker Monday: The Prairie States Forestry Project
Location
513th Ave, Orchard, Antelope County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 42.357289, -98.24290
Marker Text
The Prairie States Forestry ...
Nebraska Department of Health Incubator
This simply constructed incubator was devised by the Nebraska Department of Health to counteract high premature infant death rates. The Department of Health distributed ...
Homestead Bell
In the early 1900s, this bell was used on a homestead in Otoe County to call farmhands to meals. In the 1920s, it was used by WJAG radio announcer, and future ...
Indianola Herb tablets
NSHS 8073-123-(1), Source: Dr. Richard Tanner (heirs)
This is an envelope (above) that was used to hold Indianola herb tablets, concocted by Richard "Diamond ...
A Seat of Honor
The oak chair that had been sitting so long in our vault had been used in the House Chamber of the second Nebraska State Capitol. The first State Capitol was built in ...
Timeline Tuesday: U.S. Weather Bureau in 1890s Nebraska
The U.S. Weather Bureau was established by an act of Congress on October 1, 1890. It took over the weather service that had been established in the office of the Chief ...
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