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LOST OVER GREENLAND, gutenberg.org/cache/epub/776… CHAPTER I THE ONRUSHING TRAIN "Go in and win, Slim." "Good luck to you, old boy!" "We're rooting for you, Slim Tyler." A chorus of these and similar good wishes came from a host of throats as Slim Tyler, with an embarrassed…
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Dozens of UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ books, survey finds via ⁦@GuardianBooks⁩ theguardian.com/books/articl…

Dozens of UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ books, survey finds

Index on Censorship said 53% of librarians polled had been asked to remove books – and that in more than half of those cases books were taken off shelves

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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy via ⁦@The__Collector_⁩ thecollector.com/hamlet-shak…

Shakespeare's Hamlet: Summary, Plot & Characters (Guide) | TheCollector

William Shakespeare's Hamlet is one of the most famous plays of all time. Here’s everything you need to know about the famous tragedy.

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How do you use television news as research data? 📺 Check out this new explainer about using the Internet Archive's TV News Archive from @HimarshaJ of @ODU's Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group (@WebSciDL): ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/08/2…
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Tamara de Lempicka’s Revolutionary Art To Be Exhibited in First U.S. Retrospective mymodernmet.com/tamara-de-le… via @mymodernmet

Tamara de Lempicka’s First U.S. Retrospective This Year

This retrospective exhibit of Tamara de Lempicka will be opening later this year.

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Our latest capture of nasa.gov is quite a contrast to the spare web 1.0 version we 1st saved to the Wayback Machine in 1996. 🛰️ 🪐 🚀 Visit the strange old worlds of webpages you like using the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org @NASA #NASA #space #iss
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Lavinia Fontana, the Self-Fashioned Painter via ⁦@hyperallergic⁩ hyperallergic.com/932245/lav…

Lavinia Fontana, the Self-Fashioned Painter

The first woman to make her living from painting captured herself and other women in the ways they wished to be perceived.

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Newly Digitized Virginia Woolf Manuscripts Available Online infodocket.com/2024/08/06/ne… via @infodocket

Newly Digitized Virginia Woolf Manuscripts Available Online

From Smith College Libraries: King’s College London is the new institutional home for WoolfNotes, where it will be steered by Woolf scholars, Clara Jones and Anna Snaith. Spearheaded by scholars...

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Art Bites: Did Leonardo Leave His Fingerprint on This Portrait? Via ⁦@artnetnewsfeed⁩ news.artnet.com/art-world/ar…

Art Bites: Did Leonardo Leave His Fingerprint on This Portrait?

Experts celebrated the discovery of a long lost work by Leonardo titled "La Bella Principessa." Then an art forger took credit for it.

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21 Aug 2024
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‘We all read like hell!’ How Ireland became the world’s literary powerhouse via ⁦@GuardianBooks⁩ theguardian.com/books/articl…

‘We all read like hell!’ How Ireland became the world’s literary powerhouse

The small island has produced Nobel laureates and Booker winners and hosts a booming writing and publishing scene. What’s the secret to its success?

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Annalee Newitz and “Weaponized Stories” at the National Book Festival | Timeless blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/08/an… via @librarycongress

Annalee Newitz and “Weaponized Stories” at the National Book Festival | Timeless

Stories can be a lot of things, as journalist and novelist Annalee Newitz writes in “Stories Are Weapons,” but in the end they are powerful instruments that can be used for good or evil, to comfort...

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Dorothy Richardson and the Stream of Consciousness daily.jstor.org/dorothy-rich… via @JSTOR_Daily

Dorothy Richardson and the Stream of Consciousness - JSTOR Daily

Though often associated with Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, “stream of consciousness” novels spilled first from the pen of British modernist Dorothy Richardson.

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A Joyful Meeting of Matisse and Renoir via ⁦@hyperallergic⁩ hyperallergic.com/942626/a-j…

A Joyful Meeting of Matisse and Renoir

New Encounters takes Matisse and Renoir out of their usual spots at the Barnes Foundation to shed light on the relationship between the two artists.

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“I was born a poet and an artist, like the one who is born lame, like the one who is born blind, like the one who is born handsome. Leave my wings in their place that I answer you, I'll fly well.” ~ F. G. Lorca Assassinated by the fascists #OTD, in 1936 to @literlandweb1
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What is Botanical Illustration? Learn About the History of This Scientific Art Form mymodernmet.com/history-of-b… via @mymodernmet

300-Year-Old Botanical Illustrations and the Art They Inspire Today

Botanical illustrations have been around for centuries. Take a look at this early form of documentation and the work of contemporaries who have expanded on it as an art form.

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In this moment we excel and touch people as @gutenberg_org founder Michael S. Hart did his whole life and shortly before his death in 2012 The CD/DVD Project just got a jab 💉 Welcome to #ZWIBook @ks_found The "Information Rich" and "Information Poor" will soon be EQUAL ⚖️
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19 Aug 2024
It's happening #DARA @ks_found @gutenberg_org
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RIP Michael S. Hart 🪦 "The slow one now will later be fast." Thanks @lsanger @ks_found and ofc @gutenberg_org - the world just skipped a beat for the better
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