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Singer-songwriter Amy Oelsner channels loss into creative endeavors, like Girls Rock Bloomington, which she founded in 2019. A band from the program discusses their first EP, which they released in 2024 at 12 and 13 years old.
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    First railroad in Indiana, ca. 1851. From an illustration in a memoir by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker.
    Oliver Smith got elected to Congress when his opponent pledged support for railroads, which in 1826 Indiana were not only nonexistent but almost mythological.
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    Could you tell a coral snake from the similar looking, but non-poisonous scarlet king snake? You can look at the slight variations in pattern and see which one is poisonous. This type of coloring is classified as aposematic. A pattern is aposematic if it serves as a warning sign to the organism's predators that they should stay away or else. Learn more on this Moment of Science.

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