How Sir Isaac Newton Predicted The World Will Change In 2060 Sir Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end in 2060, but never published these studies during his lifetime. by Mike Cohen https://w…
Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy Is Loaded With Good and Bad, but His Work to Even the Economic Playing Field Is Often Overlooked He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in ending WWI and strove to improv…
New art test could help museums spot fake Van Goghs without touching paintings A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties introduces a pioneering, …
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The Story of Henry “Box” Brown, the Slave Who Mailed Himself to Freedom Conducting one of the most creative escapes from American slavery, Henry “Box” Brown made a unique mark on history. https://www.…
A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield “Even in Mansfield stories where children are not centered or present, this is their world. Her adults never quite grow up, …
🧶 Today is World Wide Knit in Public Day 🌍, a reminder that preservation is not passive. It's made stitch by stitch. Check out Mlle. Riego de la Branchardière’s THE KNITTING BOOK (1848), part of our V…
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#OTD in 1752 Frances Burney was born. She "was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In all, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty-five volumes of journals and letters. She has ga…
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How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician by Scott Neuman https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5848013/algorithm-word-week-etymology The Concise Book of Calculation by Rest…
After the Concept of Peaceful Disobedience Was Established in America, It Traveled Around the World Before Taking Hold “Force may subdue, but love gains”: The Quaker practice of conscientious objectio…
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LADY OF SCANDAL (1930) 🎩 This pre-Code romantic drama follows a young actress whose rise into high society pulls her between ambition, reputation, and love, where s…
The Cutest Anteater You've Never Heard Of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBplxJe3jg #animals
Anatomy of a Galileo Forgery It was hailed as a historic discovery—until a trail of clues revealed one of the rare-book world’s most audacious scams. By: Matthew Wills https://daily.jstor.org/anatomy-…
Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist The Remarkable Life and Times of George Forster https://lithub.com/andrea-wulf-considers-the-rare-humanity-of-an-eighteenth-…
CONGRATS AGAIN to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME REIMAGINED" by Talissa Mehringer, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A short music-film remix celebrating 19…
Service Changes at Project Gutenberg On Monday, June 15, we will be making some modifications to the official Project Gutenberg mirrors. We will be sunsetting the rsync mirror at aleph.pglaf.org (use …
