A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 8:1b-8
There broke out a severe persecution of the Church in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the…
The sun’s corona — its outermost atmosphere — is typically only visible to the naked eye during a total solar eclipse. The SwRI-led Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 project evaluated special cameras to measure the polarization of coronal light during the April 2023 total …
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Read MoreGod, my Father,
may I love You in all things and above all things.
May I reach the joy which You have prepared for me in Heaven.
Nothing is good that is against Your Will,
and all that is good comes from Your Hand.
Place in my heart a desire to please You
and fill my mind with thoughts of Your Love,
so that I may grow in Your Wisdom and enjoy Your Peace.
A team of engineers lifts the mast into place atop of NASA’s VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) dedicated her whole life to advocating for civil rights, especially the education of youth. You can find her work making headlines in Chronicling America newspapers, as well as her friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and other high profile people of the day. Even some comic books featured her biography.
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Mural painting, Rua de Santa Maria, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Anderson was published on this date in 1837.
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Written by American aviator Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) but compiled and arranged by her husband after her fatal flight, the copy of “Last Flight” in the National Woman’s Party Library in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division has a special provenance linking Earhart to the women’s suffrage movement.
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