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Cosmic Curiosities

"I do not find that anyone has doubted that there are four elements. The highest of these is supposed to be fire, and hence proceed the eyes of so many glittering stars."
- Pliny the Elder, Roman Scholar

Cosmic Curiosities

“Let freedom reign. The Sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
~ Nelson Mandela, South African Lawyer & Leader

Colorful Full Moon in June

Cosmic Curiosities

“It was one of those March days when the Sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
When it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
~Charles Dickens

Cosmic Curiosities

“In the year 1456...a Comet was seen passing retrograde between the Earth and the sun...
Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.”
- Edmond Halley

Comet Ramblings

The Milwaukee Public Museum had its origin in 1883 with a group of collections presented to the City of Milwaukee by the Natural History Society of Wisconsin (NHSW) that included "1,900 Marine invertebrates, dry" and “2,690 Insects.”

The collections have been managed under various departments over the years, most recently as Insect and Non-Insect Collections in the Invertebrate Zoology Department.

Stockbridge-Munsee Culture

Originally, the Native people who made up the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe came from Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. During the 1770s, Stockbridge -- a mixed Native and White Christian community -- was formed in western Massachusetts, largely drawing on members of the Mahikan or Mohican tribe which occupied eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and parts of western Connecticut.