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The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leondardo da Vinci (1504)February 23, 2021 at 7:00 AM Image by Davidguam via Wikimedia Commons
Every time you think you’ve got a handle on Leonardo da Vinci’s genius (which is to say, you think you’ve heard about the most important things he painted, wrote, and invented), yet more evidence comes to light of the many ways he meets the standard for the adjective “genius”…. Recently, Leonardo re-appeared not only as an inventor of futuristic military technology or discoverer of complex human anatomy, but also as the first European to depict the “New ...Tags: Google, Art, Maps, London, College, Southeast Asia, History, Atlantic, Cambridge, Belgium, Newfoundland, Kim, North America, Library Of Congress, Pacific, Columbus 139 people like this. Like Black History Month: A salute to those who served in the militaryFebruary 10, 2021 at 4:49 PM Black people have served in the American military since the Revolutionary War, including through slavery and segregation.
The 2020 Portrait of African American Active Duty and Civilian Employment in the U.S. Department of Defense offered this outlook:
In the news
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On Jan. 22, Austin became the 28th U.S. defense secretary for the Biden administration. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and served in the Army from 1975 to 2016, where he retired as a four-star g...Tags: Europe, Politics, Cook, News, Congress, Navy, France, Boston, California News, America, Los Angeles, Infographic, Sport, Austin, Soccer, Army 48 people like this. Like Legend of BeavisFebruary 9, 2021 at 8:11 AM This is an episode of the 1980s Legend of Zelda cartoon redubbed with dialog from Beavis and Butthead. Assuming you can stomach their ramblings in the first place, it's far better than it ought to be. This should be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. — Read the restTags: Post, Video, News, United States, Library Of Congress, Zelda, Mashups, Legend Of Zelda, Beavis And Butthead 81 people like this. Like Black History Month billboards salute African Americans and their seminal achievementsFebruary 5, 2021 at 9:33 PM She stares down from a digital billboard looming over the freeway, a youthful woman wearing a white nurse’s cap from the 1880s.
Who is she?
Huge white letters on the black background answer that, telling curious zooming motorists or slower moving pedestrians on a nearby overpass that her name was Mary Eliza Mahoney. And, beneath that, the message explains why Mahoney is being featured on this digital sign along the 57 Freeway in Placentia, one of dozens like it along roads in Southern California...Tags: London, News, Washington, White House, Time, America, Los Angeles, Sport, Nasa, Soccer, United States, Psa, Orange County, Naacp, Library Of Congress, Taylor 71 people like this. Like Google’s new subsea cable between the U.S. and Europe is now onlineFebruary 3, 2021 at 12:23 PM Google, together with its partner SubCom, today announced that the company’s privately owned Dunant subsea cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast is now operational.
Google first announced this project, which was named after the first Noble Peach Price winner and founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, back in the middle of 2018. At the time it expected the project to go live in 2020, but besides dealing with the complications of spanning a ...Tags: Google, Europe, New York, Congress, Tech, South Africa, Portugal, Red Cross, Library Of Congress, Atlantic Coast, Grace Hopper, Bilbao Spain, Virginia Beach Virginia, Dunant, Henry Dunant, Equiano 25 people like this. Like Google's New Subsea Cable Between the US and Europe is Now OnlineFebruary 3, 2021 at 12:30 PM Google, together with its partner SubCom, today announced that the company's privately owned Dunant subsea cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast is now operational. From a report: Google first announced this project, which was named after the first Noble Peach Price winner and founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, back in the middle of 2018. At the time it expected the project to go live in 2020, but besides dealing with the complications...Tags: Google, Europe, Congress, US, Tech, Red Cross, Library Of Congress, Atlantic Coast, Virginia Beach Virginia, Dunant, Henry Dunant, Saint Hilaire de Riez, Mark Sokol, Infrastructure Google 141 people like this. Like Tony Bennett Duets with Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse & Other Musicians, Passing on the Great American SongbookFebruary 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAmDULCVrU
I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all my aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces, and I would sing for them. I was 10 years old, and I was just saying, “Who am I? What am I supposed to do?” And they told me that they love the way I sang. It created a passion in my life that exists to this moment as I speak to you, that is stronger now at 89 than in my whole lif...Tags: Google, Music, College, New York City, Selma, Queens, Amy Winehouse, Npr, Lady Gaga, Martin Luther King, Library Of Congress, Bennet, Grammys, Cole Porter, Gaga, Ac 98 people like this. Like The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)January 29, 2021 at 2:00 PM Image via Wikimedia Commons
On the off chance Lin-Manuel Miranda is casting around for source material for his next American history-based blockbuster musical, may we suggest American Cookery by “poor solitary orphan” Amelia Simmons?
First published in 1796, at 47 pages (nearly three of them are dedicated to dressing a turtle), it’s a far quicker read than the fateful Ron Chernow Hamilton biography Miranda impulsively selected for a vacation beach read.
Slender as it is, there’s no shortage...Tags: Google, College, New York City, America, Georgia, History, Britain, United States, Food & Drink, Smithsonian, Library Of Congress, Hamilton, Arizona State University, Facebook Twitter, Simmons, Lin Manuel Miranda 91 people like this. Like Bon Voyage to Martha Kennedy of the Library of CongressJanuary 28, 2021 at 11:06 PM Martha Kennedy retires from being a paid comics historian at the Library of Congress tomorrow to being an unpaid one! We wish her luck. Martha wrote several exhibits, collected a bunch of comic art, oversaw the Swann Foundation scholarship, and authored a book on women cartoonists in the collection of the Library, Drawn to Purpose. When it's time to relax... Her colleagues commissioned this caricature from Mike Jenkins. [Author: Mike Rhode]Tags: Comics, Congress, Library Of Congress, Martha, Mike Rhode, Swann Foundation, Martha Kennedy, Mike Jenkins 94 people like this. Like What I saw during a visit of the Capitol just days after the deadly Trump-incited riot: Smashed windows, discarded escape hoods, and lots of National GuardJanuary 13, 2021 at 9:45 AM A smashed window just off the House chamber that looks out on the Library of Congress.
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Insider visited the Capitol five days after a pro-Trump mob had laid siege to the complex, damaging the ornate building and prompting an increase in security.
Though a new fence had been erected around the entire complex and National Guard troops now patrolled alongside Capitol police, an Insider reporter with a congressional press pass did not experience any additional or unusual s...Tags: Senate, US, Trends, Joe Biden, Washington Dc, House, House Of Representatives, US Senate, Nancy Pelosi, Library Of Congress, Donald Trump, Huffington Post, Capitol Police, Trump, Igor Bobic, Capitol 122 people like this. Like 1800's "Baron Trump" looks enough like Barron Trump, other parallels, foster time traveling theoriesJanuary 12, 2021 at 8:00 AM In the late 1800's author Ingersoll Lockwood wrote a series of children's novels whose main character was named "Baron Trump." And awaaayyyyy we go into Donald-Trump-is-a-time-traveler theories, which is pretty goofy, but let's look at some of the spooky parallels first. — Read the restTags: Post, News, Library Of Congress, Donald Trump, Pence, Snopes, Barron Trump, Baron Trump, Ingersoll Lockwood, Baron Vs. Barron, Billionaire Maniac, Time Traveler Trump 106 people like this. Like 206 years before a pro-Trump mob got there, the British burned Washington, but it backfired on themJanuary 11, 2021 at 10:27 AM Pro-Trump supporters storm the US Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump, January 6, 2021.
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In August 1814, British troops occupied Washington DC for two days and set about destroying the city's public buildings, including the Capitol and the White House.
The destruction was symbolic rather than strategic, and the long-term disruption to the government was minimal, but it did create sympathy for the US among other European countries.
Visit Business I...Tags: Europe, Maryland, Congress, Navy, Washington, White House, US, Toronto, Trends, Cnn, Canada, Atlantic, United States, Washington Dc, House, Paris 68 people like this. Like Doodle for Google is back for its 13th yearJanuary 11, 2021 at 11:00 AM 2020 was a challenging year for many of us. As a mother of three young children, it was filled with important conversations and loads of feelings as we took on distance learning, quarantining and even changes like wearing masks. No one knew how to parent through a pandemic (that wasn’t in the handbook) but my family's chats kept coming back to the concept of being strong – for ourselves and for others. While nothing could have prepared us for the highs and lows of last year, we somehow managed ...Tags: Google, Education, Doodles, Chicago, Kansas, Library Of Congress, Peter, Scholastic, U S Virgin Islands, Dav Pilkey, Dav, Peter Cottontale, Guam Puerto Rico, Jane Woodall, Tabatha Rosproy, Cat Kid Comic Club 37 people like this. Like A Modest Proposal for Supreme Court ReformDecember 31, 2020 at 9:33 PM The Supreme Court's argument calendars for January and February (quite light) provoke me to the following: The prospect of large-scale changes in the Supreme Court, never great, disappeared on November 3. Here’s a suggestion for a more modest reform that will get the Court to contribute its fair share to the coming push to tighten the belts of our institutions. Cut the number of law clerks justices can hire from four to two (with one extra for the Chief Jus...Tags: Supreme Court, Washington, Court, Library Of Congress, Branding, Kagan, Calibri, Louis Brandeis, Justice Brandeis, Thurgood Marshall, Mark Tushnet, Modest Proposal for Supreme Court Reform 11 people like this. Like ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ ‘The Dark Knight,’ and ‘Shrek’ Are Among Films Added to National Film Registry by the Library of CongressDecember 14, 2020 at 11:30 AM Somebody once told us the world was going to roll us, but we didn’t anticipate this. Shrek — alongside such films as A Clockwork Orange, The Dark Knight, and The Hurt Locker — has been deemed a work of “important cultural, artistic, and historic” value by the Library of Congress, which revealed its National Film Registry 2020 list today. 25 films made the list of new additions to the National Film Registry, including, yes, Shrek.
Remember when Shrek debuted at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, ...Tags: Christopher Nolan, Movies, Congress, Dreamworks, Stanley Kubrick, Venice, Mike Myers, Cannes film festival, Library Of Congress, Kathryn Bigelow, National Film Registry, Julie Dash, Buena Vista Social Club, Sidney Poitier, Cara, Palme 93 people like this. Like ‘Dark Knight,’ ‘Shrek,’ ‘Grease,’ ‘Blues Brothers’ Added to National Film RegistryDecember 14, 2020 at 3:01 AM “The Dark Knight,” “Shrek,” “Grease,” “The Blues Brothers,” “Lillies of the Field,” “The Hurt Locker,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Man With the Golden Arm” are among this year’s additions to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. “This is not only a great honor for all of us who […]Tags: News, Congress, The Dark Knight, Library Of Congress, National Film Registry, Grease, Blues Brothers, Shrek, The Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers Lillies, Clockwork Orange The Joy Luck Club 42 people like this. Like The first Indigenous poet laureate in US history discusses the powerful role of poetry right now as we mourn the loss of life during the pandemicNovember 27, 2020 at 11:42 AM Joy Harjo, member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, says poetry has become a way for many to express grief and healing during the pandemic.
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Friday is Native American Heritage Day, a time to celebrate Native American culture, their contributions to US history, and to recognize the injustice they have endured in the US.
Business Insider spoke with Joy Harjo, the country's poet laureate and the first Indigenous person to hold the title since the position was c...Tags: Justice, Congress, US, Trends, United States, Library Of Congress, University of New Mexico, Harjo, Muscogee Creek Nation, Joy Harjo, Native Nations, Marguerite Ward, Shawn Miller Library of Congress, Living Nations Living Words, Simon Ortiz Leslie Silko 86 people like this. Like Become a machine learning aficionado with this training bundleNovember 15, 2020 at 10:30 PM In the past few days, the U.S. Air Force rolled out new tools fueled by machine learning to help stem the spread of misinformation about COVID. Additionally, the Library of Congress has launched a project on how to use machine learning to better cross-reference all 170 million items in its overflowing archives. — Read the restTags: Post, News, Library Of Congress, Shop, U S Air Force 90 people like this. Like Kleefeld on Webcomics - now on YouTube!November 13, 2020 at 11:03 PM Updating our original post to try to reach more platforms in an effort to dominate local comics news coverage! [Author: Mike Rhode]Tags: Comics, Interview, Youtube, Webcomics, Library Of Congress, Mike Rhode, Sean Kleefeld, Kleefeld, Digital Comics 133 people like this. Like Kleefeld on Webcomics - a ComicsDC video interviewNovember 11, 2020 at 11:02 PM By Mike Rhode Sean Kleefeld, independent comics scholar and author of the new book, Webcomics, was the subject of our first video interview (via Zoom). Sean's been writing about comics for 14 years at his blog, Kleefeld on Comics, and Webcomics (Bloomsbury, 2020; $33) is the first academic book on various aspects of a newish form of cartooning. I was joined today by two local experts on webcomics - Robb Tanner, who as Xavier Xerxes, was one of the main comics journalists covering the early days...Tags: Comics, Interview, Congress, Webcomics, Chicago, Library Of Congress, Sean, Robb, Mike Rhode, Sean Kleefeld, Digital Comics, Megan Halsband, Mike Rhode Sean Kleefeld, Robb Tanner, Xavier Xerxes, Congress Sean 135 people like this. Like Library of Congress buys Nina Allender's cartoonsOctober 26, 2020 at 11:08 PM Women's history shrine donates trove of artifacts to Library of Congress and National Park Service [in print as New home for women's history] Michael E. Ruane Washington Post Oct. 26, 2020 p. B1, 4 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/10/25/womens-history-donation-vote-suffrage/ "The library also purchased the party's set of 167 political cartoons by women's rights artist Nina E. Allender. A spokesman declined to reveal the price. The cartoons arri...Tags: Comics, Congress, Library Of Congress, National Park Service, Mike Rhode, Nina Allender, Michael E Ruane Washington Post, Nina E Allender 33 people like this. Like Oct 21: JULES FEIFFER: A CONVERSATIONOctober 19, 2020 at 11:04 PM JULES FEIFFER: A CONVERSATION Wednesday, October 21, 2020 6:30 PM- 8:30 PM https://www.improvconferencenola.com/jules-feiffer-a-conversation/2020/10/21/jules-feiffer-a-conversation-virtual-world-premiere-amp-panel-discussion World Premiere & Live Panel Discussion Jules Feiffer is an American legend, whom the Library of C...Tags: Comics, Congress, Cnn, Smithsonian, New Orleans, Kate, Library Of Congress, Hulu, U S State Department, Donnelly, Knight, Popeye, Munro, Berryman, Mike Rhode, Matt Wuerker 51 people like this. Like Library of Congress' Swann Foundation accepting fellowship applicationsOctober 19, 2020 at 11:04 PM From: Kennedy, Martha To graduate students--future scholars of visual satire and comic arts— The Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress is accepting applications for its graduate fellowship, one of the few in the field, for the 2021-2022 academic year. Deadline for applications is February 15, 2021. Please see the following for criteria, guidelines, and application forms: https://www.loc.gov/...Tags: Comics, Library Of Congress, Mike Rhode, Swann Foundation, Congress Swann Foundation, Kennedy Martha 5 people like this. Like October 8th, cartoonists, and mortality - reflections on Pekar and ThompsonOctober 9, 2020 at 5:07 AM October 8th is the birthday of the two cartoonists I'm most closely professionally associated with... and they've both passed away. Bah. But I'm glad to have known both Richard Thompson (1957-2016) and Harvey Pekar (1939-1970), even if it was for too short a time. I was reminded of this odd coincidence today when Amy Thompson returned Richard's copy of the book I'd edited about Pekar to me. Talk about regifting... I met Harvey in 2005 when I was called in to sub...Tags: Comics, Richard Thompson, Library Of Congress, Richard, Thompson, Arlington, Harvey, Cul de Sac, Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor, Mike Rhode, Pekar, Joel Pollack, Amy Thompson, University Press of Mississippi, Tom Inge 65 people like this. Like October 8th - coincidence, cartoonists, and mortality - reflections on Pekar and ThompsonOctober 8, 2020 at 11:07 PM by Mike Rhode October 8th is the birthday of the two cartoonists I'm most closely professionally associated with... and they've both passed away. Bah. But I'm glad to have known both Richard Thompson (1957-2016) and Harvey Pekar (1939-1970), even if it was for too short a time. I was reminded of this odd coincidence today when Amy Thompson returned Richard's copy of the book I'd edited about Pekar to me. Talk about regifting... I met Harvey in 2005 when I was called in to substitute a...Tags: Post, Comics, Washington Post, David Letterman, Richard Thompson, Library Of Congress, Richard, Letterman, Thompson, Arlington, Harvey, Cul de Sac, Bill Watterson, US News World Report, Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor 131 people like this. Like Matt Dembicki's minicomics collection in the Library of CongressOctober 1, 2020 at 11:05 PM I was chatting with the serials librarians (electronically) today after dropping off some comics and minicomics for their collection (curbside), and Matt Dembicki (former ComicsDC writer and our logo artist) came up. He donated his minicomics collection to the Library of Congress a few years back and this search will let you find the 355 issues that he passed along, as the "Matt Dembicki Mini-Comics Collection" nestles in the main comic book collection. The "Small Press Expo Collection" has 3250...Tags: Comics, Congress, Library Of Congress, Zines, Mike Rhode, Small Press Expo, Matt Dembicki, Secret History of Comics, Minicomics, Matt Dembicki Mini Comics Collection 16 people like this. Like US Library of Congress needs help identifying the people in these photosOctober 1, 2020 at 10:48 AM Who the hell are these people? The US Library of Congress's Moving Image, Broadcast and Recorded Sound Division shared several dozen photos of mystery people in its collection and is seeking the world's help to identify them. Cary O'Dell at the Library's National Recording Registry writes:
To review: We found each of these photos within a much larger collection of film, TV, music and stage stills. — Read the restTags: Post, News, US, Library Of Congress, Cary O Dell 49 people like this. Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg – What Happens Now?September 24, 2020 at 6:47 PM In the frenzied pre-electoral atmosphere South of the border, there appears to be a rush to nominate a candidate to take the place of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away less than a week ago.
But politics aside, how exactly will her replacement be selected in theory? What are the procedures that need to be followed?
The Congressional Research Service in Washington, D.C. has published a few reports that explain how the process is supposed to unfold.
The Service is an agency ...Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Congress, Washington, Senate, Court, House Of Representatives, Nominee, Library Of Congress, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate Judiciary Committee, Congressional Research Service, Supreme Court Justice, Judiciary Committee, Justice Issues, The Service 22 people like this. Like Newspaper Navigator is a free online base of 1.56 million newspaper photosSeptember 24, 2020 at 5:33 AM The Library of Congress has created a fantastic online trip down the history lane. Newspaper Navigator is an online base consisting of 16,3 million newspaper pages, out of which 1.5 million are photos. It covers the period between 1900 and 1963, giving you a whole lot of historic newspaper photos and headlines in just a […]
The post Newspaper Navigator is a free online base of 1.56 million newspaper photos appeared first on DIY Photography.Tags: Art, Photography, Congress, Inspiration, Museum, Gallery, Artwork, Newspaper, Library Of Congress, History Of Photography, Newspaper Navigator 27 people like this. Like Supreme Court Justices mourn the death but praise the legacy of Ruth Bader GinsburgSeptember 19, 2020 at 3:25 PM FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait to include the new Associate Justice, top row, far right, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. Seated from left: Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Standing behind from left: Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Asso...Tags: Politics, London, News, Supreme Court, Congress, Washington Post, Washington, Senate, White House, Virginia, Court, America, Barack Obama, Trends, C, Washington Dc 137 people like this. Like |