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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  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
Gen. Lloyd Austin III
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  Tags: 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  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  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  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  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  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 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  Tags: 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 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  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 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  Tags: 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  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  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  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  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  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 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 |
