Benjamin Banneker is among the first Americans who documented the lifespan of cicadas, researchers Asamoah Nkwanta and his wife, Janet Barber, found.
Source: The Baltimore Sun County News
Maryland’s Benjamin Banneker was perhaps the first scientist to document cicadas. And he tried to kill all of them.
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