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#SpookySeason gets a sinister, shadowy visitor. 🦇 In F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922), Count Orlok’s long fingers and eerie silhouette make this landmark of horror cinema a study in unease. 🕯️ Watch it …
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Pinkie the Pink Elephant DeForest, Wisconsin, United States--A fiberglass giant pink elephant with glasses, also known as “Pinkie the Elephant” or “Pinky the Elephant” is a road…
You Wince Like a Girl More of Sylvia Plath’s writing is available than ever before. Can you take it? by Kristin Grogan https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/you-wince-like-a-girl/ #books #literature #…
Fanny Smith: The 'genocide survivor' whose voice will echo through the ages By Nicole Steinke and Nick Baker for The History Listen https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-27/fanny-smith-aboriginal-tasman…
Amateur radio history survives because people saved it. Much more has been lost in attics, basements, and forgotten files. 📻 Kay Savetz writes about recovering magazines, recordings, manuals, and mate…
The Internet Archive has an entire museum dedicated to the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️ It's called GifCities. Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first generation of the internet. Glitter…
🌉 Bay Area friends! Join us in San Francisco for the Internet Archive’s annual celebration, Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation. There’s still time to join us in-person to celebrate the Wayba…
@cockneylaurie It’s an alias for Don Elliot. See below: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/28358
The Teenagers Who Imagined GPS Before the Civil War While at Harvard in the 1830s, a 13-year-old Edward Everett Hale and his brother dreamed up a brick satellite that could pinpoint any ship’s locatio…
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The best books on Knitting recommended by Rosie Fletcher Knitting provides a slow, screen-free creative outlet, and opens up a wealth of style choices that you can’t buy on the high street. We asked t…
The Brotherhood of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Fiction Must Pay for Its Crimes by Lyndsay Faye https://crimereads.com/the-brotherhood-of-edgar-allan-poe-shakespeare-and-si…
Sorry, but Jane Eyre Isn’t the Romance You Want It to Be By Erin Blakemore Charlotte Brontë, a woman whose life was steeped in stifled near-romance, refused to write love as ruly, predictable, or safe…
🏛️ Who gets to build the internet we actually want? On October 27, Internet Archive Canada hosts Open by Design: Tools for Participation in Vancouver, an evening about the systems and institutions shap…
9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room Carla Vass Recommends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith and More "The Great Gatsby" at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks…
The Internet Archive Hero Award is a work of art! 🏛️ Designer and educator Taekyeom Lee created a 3D model of the Internet Archive’s San Francisco building to honor those who preserve and share knowled…
The Real Christopher Robin Had a Complicated Relationship With Winnie-the-Pooh From fan mail at age 7 to a lifelong struggle for identity, the real Christopher Robin didn't always love living in Pooh'…
Dainty French Imitations of S. and J. Fuller Paper Doll Books: Delphine and Emma by Augustin Le Grand by Andrea Immel https://cotsen.blogs.princeton.edu/2026/10/dainty-french-imitations-of-s-and-j-ful…
How literature can inspire us to forgive A story that places us inside the mind of a character who is remorseful about causing harm can inspire forgiveness for that fictional bad act, a new study find…
When young people feel watched all the time, there’s less room to make mistakes and grow. 📹 Constant surveillance can turn kids into their own police, and make them police each other, too. Helen Vogel…
