This Day in Pigeon History
In our capacity as head of an agency that delivers pertinent pigeon dispatches, allow us to remind you that on this day in 1914, the last known passenger pigeon--named Martha, after George Washington’s wife--died in captivity in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Martha, you live on in our hearts. And also at the Smithsonian, stuffed and mounted.
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