A watershed that saw the greatest amount of toxins released into its waters was the Lower Ohio-Little Pigeon in Indiana and Kentucky.
Author: Camille Fine, USA TODAY
‘The cities were paralyzed’: Photos show historic blizzard that pounded Northeast 135 years ago
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She was elected to Congress before women had the right to vote, blazing a trail that continues today
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A 2,000-year-old miniature Celtic statue of a small man with an oversized phallus was discovered by an English couple while metal detecting.
Yellowstone became the ‘world’s first national park’ 151 years ago: See bygone photos of iconic landscape
Yellowstone, the “first national park” home to the greatest concentration of thermal features in the world, was officially designated 151 years ago.
The first attack on the Twin Towers: A bombing rocked the World Trade Center 30 years ago
On Feb. 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center and was the first attack that signaled the arrival of terrorism on American soil.