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Join He was born 150 years ago today, during the Ulysses S. Grant administration, and he died the year NASA was established. Samuel Hopkins Adams’s millions of words must have reached just about every American during his life, whether through his muckraking journalism, short stories, romance novels, movies, poetry, histories, or biographies. He was a one-man Ford factory for the written word — in every form it could take — for the majority of his long life. But after he died, Adams’s l...

The largest tree ever cut by humans was the General Noble Tree, a giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum) from the Converse Basin Grove in the Sierra Mountains of California, USA. Contemporary reports suggest it stood 285 ft (86.9 m) tall and had a diameter of 19 ft 6 in (5.3 m) at a height of 52 ft (15.8 m) off the ground at which the cut was made (with the aid of specially built scaffolding tower), though at the base this increased to a diameter of 26 ft (7.9 m) and a circumference of 81.5 ...