When Edward Bok stood before the home of Longfellow, he realized that he was to see the man around whose head the boy’s youthful reading had cast a sort of […]
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Edward Bok had not been office boy long before he realized that if he learned shorthand he would stand a better chance for advancement. So he joined the Young Men’s
(This photo shows a newly transplanted seedling at the end of an irrigation injector line and a blue tag with its number designation.) Through funding from the U.S. Fish and
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With school-days ended, the question of self-education became an absorbing thought with Edward Bok. He had mastered a schoolboy’s English, but seven years of public-school education was hardly a basis
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Article thought to be written by Edward Bok, Ladies’ Home Journal, 1898 Keep scrolling for the full transcript of the article One of the signs in American life which 1898
The Elder Bok did not find his “lines cast in pleasant places” in the United States. He found himself, professionally, unable to adjust the methods of his own land and
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The Leviathan of the Atlantic Ocean, in 1870, was The Queen, and when she was warped into her dock on September 20 of that year, she discharged, among her passengers,
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Created by The American Foundation, this epilogue can be found in the 1973 edition of The Americanization of Edward Bok and reviews the efforts and accomplishments achieved by the group
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Several times a year, the Rare Plant Conservation Program (RPCP) gets notified by landowners, developers, governmental agencies, or ecological service contractors about upcoming construction on habitats that contain rare plant
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As we celebrate diversity this month, one plant, in particular, provides a beautiful story of how food connects all Americans. Recently, our nation celebrated Juneteenth which commemorates the freedom of