How Georges Méliès Brought Magic to the Movies Georges Méliès created worlds of magic and adventure that revolutionized filmmaking when filmmaking itself was still a novelty. by Kat Bello (from the ar…
96 years ago today Universal Pictures released KING OF JAZZ. 🎷 But where did the title "King of Jazz" come from? Paul Whiteman came to be associated with it, but it didn't start with him. To learn mor…
What Are the Routines of So-Called Super-Readers? Kelsey Rexroat Investigates the Mindsets of People Who Read Hundreds of Books a Year https://lithub.com/what-are-the-routines-of-so-called-super-reade…
Meaning beyond definition In science our concepts have neat, hard edges. In poetry our concepts stretch and expand. Both are necessary for knowledge by James Camien McGuiggan https://aeon.co/essays/in…
Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916). Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn founded Denishawn, a visionary dance school in Los Angeles, filmed in rare silent footage (1915–17) showing early activities at two sites:…
Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made moder…
Entire chapters of internet culture grew up in Flash. When it was switched off, most of it should have disappeared forever. But it didn't, thanks to the efforts of the software preservation community …
@Stone1glo take a look here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75107
Today is World Amateur Radio Day 📻 and Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC) is marking it with new collections 📡 🗞️ Over 200 issues of CQ Amateur Radio magazine 🌍 New scans of the …
The Cutest Spider in the World https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EQeWMnuZVPQ #arachnids
Another notable & interesting title mentioned in our April's newsletter: A brief outline of the history of libraries by Justus Lipsius https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78256/ Written in 1602, Lipsius'…
Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time by Sam Jones https://w…
“Hush, Lil Darlin” by Brittain Ashford is built on the well-known lullaby “Hush, Little Baby” (traditional) 🎶💤 Originally submitted to the 2025 #WNYC Public Song Project, the piece reimagines a famili…
#OTD In 1397, Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-17-2026/ "Canterbury Tales" at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/eboo…
Islands of the Imagination By Livia Gershon A short history of islands as sites of political escape and reinvention, from the myth of Atlantis to modern seasteading. https://daily.jstor.org/islands-of…
Not just a meme, but a masterpiece – why the Mona Lisa earns its exalted place in art Ceaselessly flocked by tourists at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503-17) is perhaps …
Saving local news also means saving the archives 🗞️ Not just the physical clips and photos, but the digital stories too. When they vanish, communities lose their only record of themselves their memory,…
Congrats to "THE WHITENESS OF MAGNESIUM" by Jackson Stern, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 A tightly imagined and beautifully edited love story out of time…
Eiffel Tower to gain symmetry with addition of women’s names Women will join men in being honored on the Paris icon. The inspiration for the gender parity came from student and Eiffel Tower tour guide…
The Pope Who Allegedly Made a Deal With the Devil A curious legend surrounds Pope Sylvester II and his supposed deal with the devil. What does this legend say, and where did it come from? https://www.…
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