The diary also includes a message from her father, who only knew of her death upon returning from China after the war.
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After seven failed attempts, Uzbekistan’s national football team has made history in Central Asia by qualifiying for next year’s World Cup.
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A tiny masterpiece of Flemish illumination, the Warburg Book of Hours in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division recently received a new binding that allows readers to better view some of most beautiful paintings and trompe-l’œil manuscript borders in the Library’s collection.
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The Geography and Map Division collections include vibrant nineteenth century maps showcasing brand new American communities and promises of the “good life” to prospective lot or home buyers. This post explores the common themes and fascinating details of these highly artistic maps designed to lure investment.
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Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat lived in France during the French Revolution. Concerned about the education of children, especially girls, and feeling a call to the religious life, she founded the Society of the Sacred Heart. The sisters worked for the education of the poor and ran boarding schools for the well-to-do.
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Because the game of baseball emerged and developed concurrent to the rise of cheap, mass-produced reading material, the Library has many printed artifacts from the mid-1800s that document the evolution and popularization of America’s favorite pastime.
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Saint Bede the Venerable almost never left his monastery once he became a monk, but he influenced the entire Church of his day. One of the most well-rounded scholars, he wrote and taught in all areas of knowledge. Bede’s writings were read in church even before his death.
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Australia has a dark chapter of history that many are still learning about. Following European settlement, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were removed from their families and forced into non-Indigenous society. The trauma and abuse they experienced left deep scars, and the pain still echoes through the generations. But communities are creating positive change. Today these people are recognised as survivors of the Stolen Generations.
Read MorePretty much anything good that has ever come about has happened because of a degree of experimentation. A lot of bad stuff has happened because of this, too, but that is all part of the process of creating things. Some may argue that the creation of memes lies at the bad or at least lowbrow end of the scale, but even if that were true, it can’t be denied that they are a great place to get weird with it. One meme can feed off of another meme to create something entirely new, continuing the endless flow of content that we have come to know and love. The examples that can be found below may have a surprisingly rich history to them because of this, but that is not what we are here to discover. They are simply here to help you have some momentary enjoyment in your daily life.
Among the Library’s many treasured books is a history of the Romans previously owned by President James Monroe. Pinned into the flyleaf are Monroe’s handwritten notes about the reign and reforms of King Servius Tullius.
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Everything we do here on Earth will be deleted from the cosmic record in a billion years, when the Sun will brighten and boil off all liquid water from the surface of our planet through a runaway greenhouse effect. The sturdiest structures we construct on the surface of Earth will constitute the tombstones of our civilization. This state of affairs should remind us of our personal life, where the notion of death affects what we choose to do in the limited time allotted to us. However, a cosmic time horizon of a billion years sounds so far away that we…
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The Geography & Map Division recently digitized an important set of maps of Austria-Hungary. In this post, we explore these 19th- and early 20th-century maps and the layers of history and language that they contain.
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Sussan Ley has become the first woman to lead the Liberal Party in its 80-year history — but it comes amid renewed questions over gender quotas.
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100 years after the events of the Boston Tea Party, two wealthy septuagenarian sisters from Glastonbury, CT found themselves fighting against taxation without representation. The curious case involves the seizure and auctioning of their pet cows, including two calves named Martha Washington and Abigail Adams.
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The CEO of leading AI lab Anthropic, Dario Amodei, just admitted something shocking: No one truly understands how AI works. In a personal essay, he revealed plans to develop an “MRI on AI” within ten years to decode its inner workings—and prevent potential dangers. AI systems today operate like “black boxes”—they produce results, but even their creators can’t fully explain why. This lack of control raises serious risks: advanced AI could develop unexpected behaviors, like exploiting loopholes or acting deceptively. “When a generative AI system does something, like summarize a financial document, we have no idea, at a specific or…
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The Dushanbe Grand Slam kicked off with thrilling judo action, packed stands, and historic moments. Madina Qurbonzoda, just 17, claimed bronze for Tajikistan, as stars like Buchard and Aghayev took gold. The local passion proves judo truly reigns supreme in Tajikistan.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called on Wednesday for Americans to stand up together against U.S. President Donald Trump and what she called “the greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history”.
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In early 2025, Harald Bernard Malmgren, a man with one of the most unique careers in American politics, gave his final interview. At 89, and facing declining health, he decided it was time to reveal what he knew. Over four hours, he spoke about names, dates, secret programs, and classified technology. Most shockingly, Malmgren claimed that in 1962, during a nuclear test in the Marshall Islands, the U.S. used a secret directed-energy weapon to bring down a non-human craft. He said he held the debris himself and even saw a video of a living extraterrestrial being. He also believed that…
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In our current era, we tend to glorify the author and hold the original text in high esteem. We regard Shakespeare with particular reverence, and his text is held aloft as the sacrosanct work of genius. But this was not always the case. In fact, an altered edition of Romeo and Juliet was widely printed and preferred over Shakespeare’s authoritative text for over a century.
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In the early years of the Maryland colony, Lord Baltimore’s name referred to his estates, an entire county, and a port town that would one day become the third largest city in the United States… 30 miles northeast of its current location.
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Join the Geography and Map Division and Philip Lee Phillips Society for this free in-person event, taking place on Thursday, May 8, 2025, from 1:15 PM to 4:15 PM in the Jefferson Building. Together we will will explore the significance of map surrounds through engaging talks about cartographic self portraits and the watermarks in the William Hacke atlas, along with a themed display.
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Whether or not we’re alone in the universe is one of the biggest questions in science. A recent study, led by astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge, suggests the answer might be no. Based on observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the study points to alien life on K2-18b, a distant exoplanet 124 light years from Earth. The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet’s atmosphere. On Earth, DMS is produced only by living organisms, so it appears to be a compelling sign of life, or “biosignature”. While the new…
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Queensland twins Bridgette and Paula Powers, 51, have no control over speaking in unison—it just happens. Twins recently went viral after their interview about witnessing a carjacking on the Sunshine Coast. “You know it’s hard,” Bridgette told SBS News, with Paula chiming in during the call. “We don’t notice it ourselves when we’re getting interviewed.” The video shows the sisters, dressed identically, recounting the incident where their mother helped an injured man—only to be threatened by an armed suspect. “One guy, he was up there with our mum. He went up there and he was coming back down toward us,”…
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It was this moment in history, when Jesus conquered death, that gives humanity hope for all eternity if they will repent and trust in Christ for salvation.
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While I am not here to defend them as high-quality art (not all of the time, at least), I think it is safe to say that those who look upon memes as having no value whatsoever seem a little bit silly in this day and age. Sometimes, it takes a true internet humor connoisseur to understand, but looking at the majority of memes gives a tiny glimpse into the times it was made in, and therefore, society at large. Sure, the insights may not be groundbreaking, but they don’t have to be. Sometimes, just having access to that record of what was happening and what somebody was thinking is good enough for history. It is yet another layer to consider when you are enjoying your daily allotted dose of brainrot, scrolling until the next thing that you deem amusing enough to make it worth it. Perhaps this can aid in that.
One hundred years ago, on April 10, 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald celebrated the publication of what he considered to be his greatest work of literature, The Great Gatsby. He had high hopes for the novel’s success in both sales and critical reception. “It will sell about 80,000 copies,” he supposed, “but I may be wrong.” In fact, he was wrong twice.
Read MoreThe world is watching, and history will judge our response. Let us ensure that the EU’s actions reaffirm our collective commitment to a future where democracy and human rights are not only preserved but are allowed to flourish, Mu Sochua writes.
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It is conceivable that the Earth-mass planet Proxima b, which lies in the habitable zone of the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, hosts a civilization similar to ours. Owing to minor differences between their and our history, it is possible that they had reached our current technological state slightly in advance. Consider a tiny margin of head start for Proxima b science, of order 0.00002 of the age of the Earth. This amounts to 100,000 years, meaning that Proxima’s astronomers had used telescopes to discover Earth a hundred millennia ago, in the way that we discovered Proxima b…
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Saint Casilda grew up as a Muslim. Facing a serious illness as a young woman, she journeyed to a shrine in Spain where she was cured. As a result, she embraced Christianity.
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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may harbor life. Scientists have found out what it might look like, where it is most likely to be found, and in what quantities. The study was published in The Planetary Science Journal, reports Phys. Saturn’s moon Titan is a unique world. It is the only satellite of a planet in the solar system that has a thick atmosphere and liquid on the surface. However, it is not water, but liquid methane, and it is found in lakes and rivers that are located in the middle of a surface covered with ice rocks and sand. It…
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Futures now price in up to five rate cuts in 2025 as investors bet on an aggressive policy pivot.
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Happy Giant Bible Day! On April 4, 1952, philanthropist and bibliophile, Lessing J. Rosenwald (1891-1979) donated the Giant Bible of Mainz to the Library of Congress. He made this gift exactly five hundred years after the manuscript’s scribe first put quill to parchment. In keeping with Rosenwald’s commitment to encouraging broad cultural engagement with the history of the illustrated book, the Library’s digitization allows book lovers near and far to encounter every page of this important and evocative manuscript.
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The following is a guest post by Regan Chambers-Kleiner who recently interned at the Library in the Serial and Government Publications Division as a part of the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA). From September to November, I worked as an intern with the Library’s AHHA program. My project was to review and …
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Scientists have found evidence of a huge water ice reservoir beneath the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) near Mars’ equator. If melted, it could cover the entire planet in about nine feet of water—making it the largest known water source in this region. New data from the Mars Express orbiter’s MARSIS radar shows the ice could be up to 2.2 miles (3.7 km) deep—much thicker than previously thought. “We’ve explored the MFF again using newer data from Mars Express’s MARSIS radar and found the deposits to be even thicker than we thought,” said Thomas Watters, lead study author. “Excitingly, the radar…
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A couple of weeks ago, Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis forecasted that artificial intelligence (AI) will match human intelligence within the next 5–10 years. This expectation, shared by other AI analysts, is based on the exponential growth in AI technology. However, it neglects an important factor. As humans delegate thinking to computers, they get dumber. The situation is similar to athletes losing muscle tissue by not practicing. The introduction of AI to the workforce relieves humans from a variety of intellectual tasks. The resulting “intellectual vacation mode” is likely to trigger a decline in human cognitive capabilities. As a result, the…
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The harrowing experience of a family tormented by demonic haunting and possession, stands as one of the most thoroughly documented and widely observed cases of its kind in history. Supported by over 800 pages of official records and numerous firsthand testimonies from credible witnesses—such as police officers, a police captain, Department of Child Services personnel, security guards, ministers, psychologists, and a Catholic priest—the case is regarded by many as a compelling and exemplary instance of demonic possession. But what was it? Something supernatural or just a trick of deception? The family meets a demon The series of strange events began…
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Whether the Sei Foundation buys 23andMe, or not, the genetic data company’s bankruptcy shows the perils of centralized data collection and how blockchains can protect the public, says Phil Mataras, founder and CEO of decentralized cloud network AR.IO.
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A closer look at the Library’s copy of the Eliot Algonquian Bible (1663) reveals a connection to the local history of the greater Washington area. Family birth and death inscriptions within the Bible show that it was once owned by the famous Gaither family of Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, Maryland. How and when did it arrive at the Library? Read this post to learn more.
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One of my biggest fears is being at a party that turns into a multi-level marketing sales pitch. Maybe you think you’re just going over to your friend’s house for some rosé and finger foods, and suddenly someone brings out a brochure. They try to make it seem all casual like they’re just asking you about what saucepans you use, and then wham you’re accidentally dropping a band just to avoid having an awkward situation with your friend. Multi-level-marketing schemes are so predatory. They rely on your relationships with others and make you exploit them for cash. It’s a quick and easy way to ruin a friendship in my humble opinion.
But what happens when someone you love is implicated in one? To what end will you go to appease their desperate cry for sales? Is it your job to get them out of there or do you just let sleeping dogs lie?
It is customary to search for signs of life on rocky planets in the habitable zone of their host star. There, the planet’s surface is not too hot or too cold, allowing for the chemistry of life in liquid water in the presence of a sufficiently dense atmosphere. One could imagine that other forms of life-as-we-do-not-know-it thrive in other fluids. NASA’s Dragonfly mission, scheduled for launch in July 2028, will search for signs of life in the liquid oceans, lakes and rivers of methane and ethane on the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn. The surface temperature on Titan…
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