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A minke whale has died off the New Jersey shore after colliding with a small boat. The incident occurred Saturday in Barnegat Bay and the impact nearly tipped the boat and threw a person overboard.

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Listen to this article here **Getting yourTrinity Audio player ready...** --- **Sign up for our free newsletters, created for the culture by the culture!** * The Block A weekly roundup of Greenwood, Tulsa and Oklahoma news. * The Daily Holler Local, state and national news in your inbox Monday through Friday. Sign up Born in Providence, Rhode Island on March 22, 1857, Philip Downing would go on to live a life of creation. The son of well-known abolitionist and business owner George T. Downing and Serena L. deGrasse, Philip Bell Downing grew up around influential leaders from birth. His grandfather, Thomas Downing, had been born to emancipated parents in Virginia. A successful businessman, Thomas Downing played an important role in founding the United Anti-Slavery Society of the City of New York in the mid-1830s. And Phillip was there the whole time soaking up game. ## Black creativity is in everything. One of six children, Philip Downing spent his childhood in several cities. Like all great inventors, he discovered a need and filled it. Back then, anyone interested in mailing a letter would have to make the long trip to the post office. Philip Downing designed a metal box with four legs, which he patented on October 27, 1891. What’s known today as a mailbox, he named a “street letter box” at the time. Until this point, those wishing to send mail usually had to travel to the post office. Downing’s invention would instead allow for nearby drop-offs and pick-ups for both letter carriers and mailers. It included a feature that kept bad weather, such as rain and snow, from damaging the mail. It also included a safety feature that made the mail secure until it was picked up by postal employees. During the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, Philip Downing successfully filed at least five patents with the United States Patent Office, but none were more widely used than the mailbox. The Black Wall Street Times / News Publication **Sign up for our free newsletters, created for the culture by the culture!** * The Block A weekly roundup of Greenwood, Tulsa and Oklahoma news. * The Daily Holler Local, state and national news in your inbox Monday through Friday. Sign up ## Philip Downing deserves his own stamp. More than twenty-five years later, on January 26, 1917, Downing would receive another patent (U.S. Patent number 1243,595), for an envelope moistener. It utilized a roller and a small, attached water tank, to quickly moisten envelopes. Philip Downing died in Boston on June 8, 1934. He was 77.

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Dr. Margaret S. Collins (1922-1996), a renowned expert on termite ecology and distribution, taught as a professor and administrator at Howard University, Florida A&M; University, and Federal City College (now University of The District of Columbia) for over 35 years. Upon her retirement from teaching, Collins continued her work on termites at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History as a research associate from 1983 to 1996.Over the course of her career, Collins published more than forty articles spanning the biogeography, physiology, chemical defenses, and taxonomy of termites.

Not much is known about Alice H. Parker, the Howard alumna who invented the heating furnace