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    discoverynews:

    SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down

    Space Exploration Technologies aced a practice mission to the International Space Station, completing a nine-day flight of its unmanned Dragon capsule with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday.

    Riding beneath a trio of 116-foot wide parachutes, the bell-shaped ship landed about 560 miles west of Baja, California at 11:42 a.m. EDT.

    Earlier Thursday, astronauts aboard space station used the 58-foot long Canadian robotic arm to fly Dragon out of the docking slip where it had spent the past six days and release it into space for the quick journey back to Earth.

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    Source: news.discovery.com
    #news #space #spacex #science
     
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    chicagohistorymuseum:

    People dancing near Peoria St. between Maxwell St. and 14th St. Undated photograph by James Newberry. 

    Want a copy of this photo?
    > Visit our Rights and Reproduction Department and give them this number: ICHi-35008. 

    #History #Chicago #Chicago History Museum #Dancing #Photography #black and white
     
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    laphamsquarterly reblogged congressarchives:

    congressarchives:

    President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854, creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The act allowed residents of the new territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery, thus reversing the limits on slavery set by the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Proponents of the act thought it provided a peaceable means by which the slavery issue could be addressed in the new territories; however shortly after its passage pro and anti-slavery factions in Kansas fought violently for control. “Bleeding Kansas” became the focus of the slavery debate and a major factor leading to the Civil War.

    H.R. 236, 5/9/1854, Records of the U.S House of Representatives 

    From ‘act’ to ‘clause’. Sneaky!

     
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    pbsthisdayinhistory reblogged todaysdocument:

    todaysdocument:

    Benedict Arnold Swears Allegiance

    In 1778, Major General Benedict Arnold swore allegiance to the fledgling United States. Two years later General Arnold would betray his oath by conspiring to surrender West Point to the British.

    Benedict Arnold’s Oath of Allegiance, 05/30/1778

    Source: research.archives.gov
     
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    jfklibrary reblogged boston:

    Great photo!

    boston:

    Conan O’Brien talks comedy at Kennedy Library

    - Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris, who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism last month, quizzed Brookline-bred late-night guy Conan O’Brien about comedy at the John F. Kennedy Library on May 24.

    Source: Boston.com
     
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    laphamsquarterly reblogged mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:
    Ask an Archivist: "How do you find the hot old-picture guys?"

    Servicey!

    mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

    The wonderful Ask an Archivist over at The Hairpin answers the essential question of our age:

    “Since archivists try to keep the title a photograph was originally given, unless the ghost is searching the Playgirl Collection (yowza!), using words like “hot” or even “attractive” in the search box won’t work.”

    Knowledge! Here’s a tip that I’ve used: try and find hot professions, like baseball player, flying ace, poet, or thief. 

     
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    nypl:
    RIP Doc Watson. Listen to the great folk musician on vinyl at the Library for the Performing Arts
    #Doc Watson #vinyl #music #collections
     
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    newsweek reblogged nwkarchivist:

    nwkarchivist:

    J.F.K Would Be 95 Today

     
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    aotus:

    Look Down

    As a kid I had a “talent” for finding four leaf clovers. Stretching before a run recently I looked down and noticed one staring me in the face. And reconnected with my childhood. In fact, over the past weekend I found 23!

    We are surrounded every day with messages to “look up,” “look ahead,” “look back,” but not so many to “look down.” Except “mind the gap!” A quick Google search for “look up” results in 560m hits while “look down” only 231m hits. So, while you are looking up for inspiration or ahead for direction or back for perspective, remember to look down. It is amazing what’s at your feet!

    Read the full post on the AOTUS blog.

    Source: blogs.archives.gov
    #four leaf clover #clover #National Archives #look down #perspective #inspiration
     
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    life:

    May 29, 1917: President John F. Kennedy is born.

    Happy birthday, Mr. President.  Pictured above, his cake at Madison Square Garden during a “Birthday Salute” in honor of President Kennedy, New York, May 19, 1962.

    #History #photography