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nypl:
On this day in history, blue jeans are born! On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a a patent to create pants reinforced with metal rivets, thus marking the birth of the popular pant.
The image here depicts the White Oak Cotton Mill in North Carolina, one of the largest denim mills in the world. The GIF was created by the Library’s Stereogranimator using images from the Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views in the Library’s Photography Division.
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Posted on May 3, 2013 via maison cosmos- with 46 notes
Source: wearecosmos
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nypl:
“Praise Song”
It’s a Sunday and
the atheist walks down
5th Ave up the stairs
through the Lion’s Gate
He enters the library
His church
Today’s winning poem is the second poem submitted by @shipleywriter. Share your favorite little poems in honor of Poetry Month: http://www.nypl.org/poetrycontestAmen
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Love.
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Posted on April 23, 2013 via LOLMeg with 122 notes
Source: megwhat
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Plays: 2,506
The power of preserving silence is the very first requisite to all who wish to shine, or even please in discourse; and those who cannot preserve it, have really no business to speak. … The silence that, without any deferential air, listens with polite attention, is more flattering than compliments, and more frequently broken for the purpose of encouraging others to speak, than to display the listener’s own powers. This is the really eloquent silence. It requires great genius—more perhaps than speaking—and few are gifted with the talent.
Arthur Martine in Martine’s Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness (1866)
Song: “Enjoy the Silence” by Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Break music
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nypl:
Sleep mouth open & ocean spirits whirl in. Dream salty words that swim slow around your tongue & linger beached in carbonized air.
LIKE and SHARE your favorite poems in honor of poetry month: http://www.nypl.org/poetrycontestI will think about this little poem when I am missing the ocean
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To have mother tongue, whatever it is, and add other languages to it is empowerment. But to know all the other languages and not one’s own is enslavement. I hope Africa chooses empowerment over enslavement. Don’t turn our children into linguistic slaves, aliens in their own communities. The global citizen is not an abstraction: he or she has roots in all the countries, communities, and languages of the earth.
By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o for the Sunday Times: -
Writers and artists value prizes and monetary rewards of course. But they hardly write for monetary prizes and if they did, most would starve to death waiting for returns commensurate with the time invested. My own novels take me anywhere between one to five years to write and when published it takes a few more years to build a loyal readership. The best seller that sells in millions is a very rare beast. But like prophets and seers, writers are driven by a force, an irresistible desire to give to the inner impulses, the material form of sound, color and word. This desire cannot be held back by laws, tradition, or religious restrictions. The song that must be sung will be sung; and if banned, they will hum it; and if humming is banned, they will dance it; and if dancing is banned, they will sing it silently to themselves or to the ears of those near, waiting for the appropriate moment to explode. Killing the singing goose is the only way of stopping the golden voice of conscience.
By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o for the Sunday Times: -
“A trained librarian is a powerful search engine with a heart” – lovely poster by Sarah McIntyre, adding to the history of visual love for libraries.
Posted on April 10, 2013 via Explore with 439 notes
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My language teaching app (duo lingo) is getting pushy.
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