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npr:

nprbooks:

Ever wonder how butter came about? Author Elaine Khosrova has a theory:

Sometime around 8000 B.C., a weary herdsman reached for the sheepskin bag of milk knotted to the back of his pack animal. But as he tilted his head to pour the warm liquid into his mouth, he was astonished to find that the sheep’s milk had curdled. The rough terrain of ancient Africa and the constant joggling of the milk had transformed it into butter – and bewilderingly, it tasted heavenly.

Khosrova says the story of butter is a historical roadmap of humanity. Her new book is called Butter: A Rich History. 

Spread The Word: Butter Has An Epic Backstory

Some delicious history. 😋  -Emily

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rookiemag:

In Print

Books about building the jobs and lives of your dreams.

Lena Singer, Lennon Walter and Maura M. Lynch. Collage by Beth Hoeckel.

howdyhihello:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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cityofbostonarchives:

#onthisday in 1875, the New Old South Church building on Boylston Street was dedicated.

Old South Church was founded in 1669 by Congregationlist dissenters from Boston’s First Church. The congregation was also known as “Third Church” because the city already had a First Church and Second Church. The church building on Washington Street was a focus point for the Revolutionary War. In  1773, Samuel Adams gave the signal for the Boston Tea Party at Old South Church.

In1875, the congregation moved from their Washgington Street building to their present location on Boylston Street in the Back Bay. The new building, designed by the same architects that designed the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum, is an example of the Venetian Gothic style.

The congregation’s former Washington Street building was preserved because of its historical importance, thus leading the congregation to adopt the name “New Old South Church” to distinguish them from “Old South Church” on Washington Street.

 Tower of New Old South Church, Boylston Street, 1911 November 14, Public Works Department photograph collection (Collection #5000.009)

Please attribute to Boston City Archives.

For newly digitized photos from this collection, click here

nyhistory:

As the wars and relocations of the later 19th century devastated the indigenous population of the Great Plains, many whites became interested in documenting American Indian life. The photographer William Henry Jackson, famous for his images of the western landscape, likely produced this portrait of a Crow man and woman while working on a federal geological survey. 

William Henry Jackson. Kam ne but se or “Blackfoot”. circa 1880. New-York Historical Society.

nyhistory:

Take pictures of cats, and the future will thank you. 

#WednesdayWisdom

More of Mr. Hassler’s cat photography here.

William D. Hassler. Peaches and two unidentified young cats posed in a doorway. undated (circa August 1916). New-York Historical Society.

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npr:

But before Barack Obama’s political career, he was a community organizer in Chicago, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and the state director of Illinois Project Vote.

And it was back then — in the 1990s, when Obama was in his late 20s and early 30s — that he first appeared on NPR.

Here are highlights from some of those earliest appearances:

In 1990, Obama was still a student at Harvard Law School and had just become the Harvard Law Review’s first black president when he was interviewed on Morning Edition.

LISTEN: Before Obama Was President, In His Own Words On NPR

Photo: Joe Wrinn/Harvard University/Corbis via Getty Images

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peabodywunderkammer:

That awkward moment when you discover that the father of pragmatism may have “borrowed” a book from your library without permission!

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vintagelibraries:

Collecting books for readers in the reserve stacks, 1964.

vintagelibraries:

Student reading in the Shaw Library, 1964.

todaysdocument:

“The Day the Books Went Blank”

What happens if a library is not used, the collection not maintained, and the books not read?  Would the pages go blank?  That’s the outcome dramatized in “The Day the Books Went Blank”, a 1961 educational film intended to show the importance of maintaining quality libraries, from The Library Extension Agencies of the six New England States.

Remember your local library for Library Week (and every week)!

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vintagelibraries:

Goshen College, Sitting In The Stacks, ca. 1984-85