

Join us on Tuesday, February 11 at 3pm Eastern for a virtual orientation to GIS and geospatial resources at the Library of Congress.
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Crested hawk-eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus cirrhatus) with Indian garden lizard (Calotes versicolor) in Satpura National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Northwest view of the church, castle and lake in Ivenack, Germany. The complex is part of the Ivenacker Tiergarten and Ivenacker Eichen nature reserves.
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Eruption of Strokkur (Icelandic for “churn”) a fountain geyser located in the Haukadalur geothermal area, southwest of Iceland.
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A juvenile green iguana (Iguana iguana) in Brejo da Madre de Deus, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis citernii) with Helichrysum citrispinum, Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia.
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A devotee placed a candle to the Virgen del Valle as a symbol of prayer in her intercession to god, that her prayer reaches God.
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A local train from Arosa to Chur crosses the Langwieser Viaduct, Langwies, Switzerland. The train is hauled by an ABe 8/12 “Allegra” EMU
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Actress Mitzi Akaha 2024 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Today kicks off the 41st edition of the famous festival.
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Most American cities are encompassed by one or more counties and overlap with them in jurisdiction, but there are 41 unique cases known as independent cities, and 38 of them are in Virginia. Read more to learn why!
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It’s so sad to watch parents s*ck the joy out of things their kids enjoy. So many kids would be delighted playing school sports in a casual, fun environment, but because their parents don’t want them to unless they’re going to be the best at them, many kids don’t even bother playing sports in the first place. There are kids who love to do theater for fun, but their parents make the experience miserable by giving them notes and picking apart their performance before they ever even get onstage. You would think that these parents would be happy that their kid has an extracurricular activity they enjoy, but that’s not good enough in this highly competitive world. Even if you’re not looking at it from a competitive or extracurricular angle, it is incredibly easy for a parent or guardian to take joyful and harmless things away from their dependents.


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Scientific diagram of arteries, veins, and capillaries. Also shows cross-sectional area differences.
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Detail view of a crane in the harbour, Waterfront, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Cluster of Breath roots (pneumatophores) of a Taxodium distichum at the water’s edge. Focus stack of 4 photos.
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Olive-bellied sunbird (Cinnyris chloropygius) starting to fly at Kibale National Park
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The view of Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park, California, United States
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This post highlights some of the maps that were scanned and made available on the Library website in 2024.
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Grand staircase of the Palais Garnier, an opera house in Paris, France that opened on this day 150 years ago.
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Royal Air Force (RAF) Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA607 EB-X flying past Corris Corner in Mach Loop, Wales, United Kingdom
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The Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, formerly and commonly referred to as the Château Frontenac, is a historic hotel located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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It’s a grey November day in Florida, and it’s raining softly on the roof of a car. In it, an overweight man has been sitting in the driver’s seat weeping intermittently. He is about to eat the viral spicy chicken sandwich from Popeyes, which he has spent some time brandishing at the camera through his tears. After a minute or so of hysterical, choppily edited monologing, an outside distraction proves a further breaking point. “I’m just so upset… AND THERE’S A LADY BEHIND ME FEEDING CATS. SHE’S FEEDING THE STRAY CATS… STOP FEEDING THE CATS. STOP FEEDING THE CAAAATS!”
So goes the abridged version of the beginning of “meltdown in my car”, one of the most iconic videos from one of YouTuber Nikocado Avocado’s many, many monetized low points. From a meme standpoint, he could be defined as the most famous YouTube “Mukbanger”—a video genre originating in South Korea where a person films themselves consuming large amounts of food for an online audience.


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Wedge-tailed grass finch (Emberizoides herbicola) in Terenos, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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Interior of the Canterbury Cathedral. Thomas Becket was martyred at the altar on this date in 1170. Today is Thomas Becket’s feast day.
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Satellite picture of the Etna volcano erupting in eastern Sicily (Italy) in December 2018.
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The Seehornsee in the Berchtesgaden Alps. On the right the normal route to the Seehorn.
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Khone Phapheng Falls, Si Phan Don, Laos. Located on the Mekong River near the border with Cambodia, at 10.7 kilometres (6.6 mi) wide, it is the widest waterfall in the world.
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An exploration of map scales and comparative areas, from miles and representative fractions to…the Midwest?
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Wild alpha male chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) at Kibale forest National Park, Uganda
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