The earliest sculpture by an Indianapolitan was the statue of Benjamin Franklin by John Mahoney, erected in 1874 above the front doorway of the Franklin Insurance Company building in the southeast segment of the Circle.

And that ye shoulde aunswere to every sentence. Amen.

Then the bewilderings of the comings and the goings of the coffins at the large and populous house; these bewilderings came over me. What was it to be dead? What is it to be living?

The great French microbiologist Louis Pasteur … lost three of his five children to typhoid fever.