This post briefly highlights Anne Royall, one of America’s first female journalists, and her weekly Paul Pry newspaper.
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April 20, 2024 – Saturday of the Third Week of Easter – Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!…
Read MoreDear Lord! Fill our parents with Thy choicest blessings;
enrich their souls with Thy holy grace;
grant that they may faithfully
and constantly guard that likeness to Thy union with Thy Church,
which Thou didst imprint upon them on their wedding day.
Fill them with Thy spirit of holy fear,
which is the beginning of wisdom;
inspire them to impart it to their children.
May they ever walk in the way of Thy commandments,
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Blind accordion player, Patzcuaro, Michoacán, México
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“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
Read MoreA reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 9:1-20
Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and…
In 1866, the Smithsonian physically transferred its library of over 40,000 works to the Library of Congress. A notable event in the history of both information institutions, the Smithsonian Deposit included a range of materials which today are dispersed throughout the Library’s divisions. Among them are some unexpected and intriguing materials in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
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This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of star-forming region NGC 604 shows how stellar winds from bright, hot young stars carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.
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This blog post describes William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s attempt to irrigate Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin through maps which detail the area.
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This nudibranch (Notaeolidia), or sea slug, a type of soft-bodied marine gastropod mollusk, is found in the icy waters around Antarctica. This specimen was collected during the 2019 PolarTREC (Polar Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) expedition to study the thermal …
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Read More“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
Read Moreadjective: Of unknown origin or cause.
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A jewel of the southern sky,
the Great
Carina Nebula is more modestly known as NGC 3372
Acclaimed author Truman Capote was born in 1924 in New Orleans. An openly gay man from the deep south, Capote defied social expectations and lived his life authentically despite the risk. Known for his small stature and large personality, he surrounded himself with the most famous, fashionable, and wealthy women in New York, whom he …
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April 15, 2024 – Monday of the Third Week of Easter – Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!…
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Gatehouse on the bridge over the Main river in Miltenberg
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“The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.”
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April 19, 2024 – Friday of the Third Week of Easter – Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!…
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When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded, the American “yellow press” published outrageous accusations against Spain and demanded war. Read more about the beginnings of yellow journalism and the rivalry between Pulitzer and Hearst that brought their newspapers to print some of the most preposterous pages in journalism history.
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The ocean holds about 97 percent of Earth’s water and covers 70 percent of our planet’s surface. According to the United Nations, the ocean may be home to 50 to 80 percent of all life on Earth. Even if you live hundreds of miles from a coast, what happens in the ocean is fundamental to your life.
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From our vantage point in the
Milky Way Galaxy,
we see NGC 1232 face-on
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Detail of a Eucomis (crested lily). The crest develops from the beautiful mottled stem. Focus stack of 16 photos.
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Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964), pioneer in environmental awareness and protection, authored her landmark work, Silent Spring, in 1962. This Earth Day post remembers her legacy as an author who wrote to inspire wonder in her readers.
Read More“Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.”
Read MoreA reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 8:26-40
The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, “Get up and head south on the road that…
A researcher with the 2019 PolarTREC expedition dives under diatom-coated sea ice in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. The expedition studied the thermal sensitivity of embryos and larvae of Antarctic marine ectotherms.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant OPP 1918637.]
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Read MoreO my dear Angel Guardian, preserve me from the misfortune of offending God.
Read More“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?”
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April 18, 2024 – Thursday of the Third Week of Easter – Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!…
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NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The rocket was part of a series of three launches for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission to study the disturbances in the electrified region of Earth’s atmosphere known as the ionosphere created when the Moon eclipses the Sun. The rockets launched before, during, and after peak local eclipse time on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Read Morenoun: An obsessive preoccupation with numbers, calculations, and counting.
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On the afternoon of February 28, 1844, President John Tyler and roughly 400 guests were enjoying a cruise down the Potomac River on the new US Navy warship USS Princeton, when the mammoth, 13-ton naval gun on board, known as the “Peacemaker,” exploded. The disaster came close to costing the president his life, but instead it led to his marriage.
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Not one, but two comets appeared near the Sun during
last week’s total solar eclipse
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Jaesil for Sejong the great. It was built in 1469 but demolished under Japanese rule. It was reconstructed in 1970. Sejong the Great died on 8 April 1450.
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Did the earliest printers know what print was? Book historian Anna Dlabacova, former fellow in the W. Kluge Center and senior university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, offers some observations about what a 15th-century book from the Netherlands can teach us about culture and innovation.
Read More“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.”
Read MoreA 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.
“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
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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.
Read Morenoun: An extreme fear of fire.
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The explosion is over, but the consequences continue
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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.
Read More“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.”
Read MoreA reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 7:51—8:1a
Stephen said to the people, the elders, and the scribes: “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and…