After living briefly at a TV station in Mt. Pleasant, SC, in the 1950s, Susie Q the elephant worked in circuses across U.S.

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, Harry T. Burn, 24, a freshman legislator in Tennessee who held the pivotal ...