This year is the 100th anniversary of the dog mushing relay that carried the diphtheria serum to Nome during a raging storm.
With the only cure hundreds of miles away, it seemed that the town was in danger of being decimated — until a dog named Balto helped save the day. At the time, diphtheria was a major cause of ...
Just outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once stealthily deposited a dead bear cub, stands a bronze statue to another animal: Balto, the husky that, 100 ...
Famously, Balto was in the lead of that team, the dog that became a media sensation, so much so that reporters begged Kaasen into reenacting the entrance into town during daylight so that ...
With multiple robotics courses now being offered and a new robotics lab slated to open this year, Michigan Technological ...
A man who was found dead inside a garage in Chanhassen sustained both knife and gunshot wounds in an alleged assault last week. The Carver County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call at 3:52 ...
It's likely the toll was greater, because Alaska Natives were not accurately tracked. Balto gains fame as unlikely dog to bring serum to Nome Seppala and Togo missed the limelight that went to his ...
In a comic framework, (Atef), the newly graduated young doctor, is assigned to a health unit in a village, and then he suddenly finds himself becoming the director of the health unit and ...