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The first several decades of the Los Angeles Public Library's existence involved frequent moves into various rented spaces downtown.
Do you own a hat? I don’t mean a baseball cap—I mean a real, structured, leave-the-house-in-it hat. And how would you feel about wearing it... every single day?
Carlos Bulosan was 17 when he arrived in Seattle in 1930. The son of farmers in Pangasinan, Philippines, he had little formal education and limited English. Like many others before and since, he wanted a better life.
Sept. 11, 1885 is the birthdate of D.H. Lawrence, who rose from a working-class family in an industrialized England to become one of the most important and controversial authors of the early 20th century.
On April 30, 1975, the United States Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam broadcast the following: "The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising," followed by the song "I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas." The American Embassy distributed the instructions surrounding this sequence to U.S.
El papa Francisco, el primer papa de las Américas, nació el 17 de diciembre de 1936 en Buenos Aires, Argentina y falleció el 21 de abril de 2025 en la Casa Marta, en la Ciudad del Vaticano. Hijo de inmigrantes italianos en Argentina, sus padres lo nombraron Jorge Mario.
Mario Vargas Llosa nació el 28 de marzo de 1936 en Arequipa, Perú y falleció en Lima el 13 de abril a los 89 años de edad. Durante su vida, vivió en varios países como Perú, Bolivia, España, y Francia. Ganó el premio Príncipe de Asturias en 1986 y también el premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010.
Fifty years ago this month in 1975, the Altair 8800, one of the first commercially available personal computers, was released in kit form.
January 29 is National Puzzle Day!
This got me thinking about the history of jigsaw puzzles: when were they invented, what is a jigsaw, and any other nerdy things I could research. Here are some fun facts I discovered.
