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Free to Use and Reuse: Aircraft! | Library of Congress Blog
February 14, 2022 by, Neely Tucker The Library’s Free to Use and Reuse copyright-free prints and photographs are among the most popular items in the Library’s vast collections. They’re great images from days gone by and they’re yours for free! You can check out the pictures in travel posters, autumn and halloween, weddings, movie palaces…
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Making the Library of Congress More Relatable | ISTE Blog
By Julie Randles, February 3, 2022 Carla Hayden is an anomaly. She’s not only the first woman and African-American to hold the Librarian of Congress position – she’s actually a librarian, too. That makes her the second in a string of 14 historians, lawyers, even a poet who have held this post by presidential appointment.…
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“Return of the Jedi,” Mark Hamill and the 2021 National Film Registry | Library of Congress Blog
December 14, 2021 by Neely Tucker Video of announcement: https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10132/ The National Film Registry’s 2021 class is the most diverse in the program’s 33-year history, including blockbusters such as “Return of the Jedi,” “Selena” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” but also the ’70s midnight-movie favorite “Pink Flamingos” and a…
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Measuring Distances in Cosmology – Explaining Science
By Steve Hurley, Posted on December 1, 2021 I have recently written an article for my local amateur astronomical society about distance measurements in cosmology. There is a lot of confusion about what we mean by “distance” on the vast such scales and the article was written to help clear up of these misunderstandings. It…
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The September 11, 2001 Web Archive: Twenty Years Later | Library of Congress | The Signal
Published September 22, 2021, by Carlyn Osborn Today’s guest post is from Tracee Haupt, a Digital Collection Specialist in the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, I asked four individuals who were part of the creation of the September 11, 2001 Web…
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Summer Beauties: The Golden Age of Travel Posters | Library of Congress Blog
August 19, 2021 by Neely Tucker Jan Grenci, a reference specialist in the Prints & Photographs Division, wrote a short piece about travel posters in the July/August issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. It’s been expanded here. Some of the Library’s most popular Free to Use and Reuse photographs and prints are the travel…
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May 2-8 is National Pet Week! – FACE Foundation Blog
May 4, 2021 National Pet Week is an annual event created in 1981 to celebrate all the pets that enrich our lives and to encourage responsible pet care and ownership. The American Veterinary Medical Association has assigned specific pet care themes to each day of the week. Here’s an overview, you can learn more about…
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Trumpfiles2020 ..new blog…
Update: February 10, 2021 ..I’ve archived and retired the Trumpfiles blog, and that is the reason for the gap in my archives.. I was away working on the Biden-Harris election as best I could and the site to get out the truth about Trump.. I resumed working on my main blog, DrWeb’s Domain in February,…
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DrWeb’s Top Ten Christmas Movies…
DrWeb’s Top Ten Christmas Movies – 2025 update [originally published 12/24 in 2004, from my old blog] Here’s my favorite Christmas movies, with links to see more about them at the Internet Movie Database.. I know I said top ten, but I’m adding a movie to the mix this year, let’s call it an extra…
