Our baseball heroes - captains of the twelve clubs in the National League

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, the National League (NL), is the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876,

Title: Our baseball heroes - captains of the twelve clubs in the National League, Creator(s): Fox, R. K. (Richard Kyle), b. 1846, copyright claimant, Date Created/Published: New York : Richard K. Fox, c1895 Apr. 20. Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph.

Summary: Print showing bust portraits of the captains of the twelve baseball teams in the National League, arranged around a scene showing a base-runner attempting to steal second base during a baseball game. Clockwise, from the top are: George Davis of New York, Michael J. Griffin of Brooklyn, William "Buck" Ewing of Cincinnati, John A. Boyle of Philadelphia, Oliver W. "Patsy" Tebeau of Cleveland, John Wesley Glasscock of Louisville, Edward C. Cartwright of Washington, Connie Mack of Pittsburg, George F. "Doggie" Miller of St. Louis, Billy Nash of Boston, Wilbert Robinson of Baltimore, and Adrian "Cap" Anson of Chicago.

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-18403 (digital file from original print) LC-USZ62-922 (b&w film copy neg.)

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Call Number: PGA - Fox, Richard--Our baseball heroes ... (B size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Notes: 23877 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyrighted 1895 by Richard K. Fox, Police Gazette, New York. Published in: Supplement to the Police Gazette, vol. LXVI, no. 926 (1895 June 1st), Richard K. Fox Propr.

Subjects: Baseball players--United States--1890-1900. Format: Chromolithographs--Color--1890-1900. Portrait prints--1890-1900. Collections: Popular Graphic Arts.

W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield)

William Claude Dukenfield (W.C. Fields) (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946)

Title: W.C. Fields -- Philip Goodman. Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher. Date Created / Published: [no date recorded on caption card] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-36682 (digital file from original negative)

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-B2-1234]

Call Number: LC-B2- 6125-15. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives. Collections: Bain Collection.

The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but there was a special emphasis on life in New York City.

The bulk of the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s. Available online are 39,744 glass negatives and a selection of about 1,600 photographic prints for which copy negatives exist. This represents all of the glass plate negatives the Library holds and a small proportion of the 50,000 photographic prints in the collection. The Library purchased the collection in 1948 from D.J. Culver.

Solomon Dedicates the Temple at Jerusalem

The first particulars of a description of the Temple are given in the First Book of Kings: a few more are added in the Second Book of Kings and in Jeremiah. The parts wanting in these three books are given in Ezekiel, and nowhere else in the world.

It is as if the writer of the Kings, and Jeremiah and Ezekiel, had examined each what the other had written, and then each supplied what the others had omitted. Thus, in Kings, many inside measures of the house are given, but no outside ones; while in Ezekiel the outside measures are supplied, together with some inside measures which were omitted in Kings: and, when all the measures are put together, they perfectly agree, and make one house.

In general, it is a truth which will be established by a hundred examples, that parts which are fully described in Kings are only mentioned in Ezekiel, and those which are only mentioned in Kings are fully described in Ezekiel. Thus

it is barely mentioned in Kings that the Temple had courts, gates, altars, and little chambers; but no measures or descriptions are given of them: while in Ezekiel the courts, gates, and altars are minutely described, and the little chambers are shown to be watch-towers, three each side of each gate, PI. XIII. and XV.; and are fully described and measured, with the distances between the groups and between each other, Ezek. xl. 7-10. So, on the other hand, two pillars — Jachin and Boaz — are minutely described in 1 and 2 Kings and Jeremiah, together with the porch in which they stood.

The same porch is described in Ezekiel, with the bare mention of two pillars, one each side of it. But the length of this porch is given as twenty cubits in both places, bb', PI. VII.; while the width in Kings is ten cubits, but in Ezekiel it is eleven cubits, 1 Kings vi. 3; Ezek. xl. 49. But in Kings the measures are taken from the inside of the house, outwards: while in Ezekiel the measuring begins at the east gate of the outer court, at o, PI. XIII., and proceeds inwards, on the dotted line, to the house in the centre; thus from without inwards, and then into the house. Hence the width of ten cubits is an inside measure, gd', PI. VII.; and eleven cubits is an outside measure, gb'. Hence the porch had a wall one cubit thick, b'd'. That it had a wall is further evident in that it had a gate (Ezek. xl. 48), which was six cubits wide, cc' (same); and, if there were no wall, there would be no need of a gate.

Solomon Dedicates the Temple at Jerusalem, c. 1896-1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) or followers, gouache on board, 10 5/16 x 7 1/2 in. (26.2 x 19.2 cm), at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Date: c. 1896-1902

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TEXT CREDIT: Solomon's temple: or, the tabernacle ... Volume 61 of Solomon's Temple: Or, the Tabernacle, Timothy Otis Paine. Author: Timothy Otis Paine. Publisher: Phinney, 1861. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Jan 24, 2008. Length: 99 pages. Subjects: History › General, History / General, Solomon's temple.

Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators

January 27, 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.

The name of Guy Faukes has, by reason of the all-important part assigned to him in the conspiracy, become so closely identified with its formation and its direction, that we are apt nowadays to look upon him as the principal plotter, whereas he was really subordinate to another, whose name is not quite so familiar to the man in the street. This, the principal plotter, was Robert Catesby. It was, ab initio, Catesby's Conspiracy. It was from his restless brain that the idea of blowing up the House of Peers with gunpowder first emanated.

Having laid his plans, Catesby looked round for confederates, upon whom he could implicitly rely, to help him; and, on his solicitation, they one after another promised to assist and obey him. He was from beginning to end the captain of the band. He hesitated at nothing to gain his own ends.

Promises that he could not fulfil, statements about others that could not be true, I cannot agree with the theory that it was Thomas Winter who put the idea into Catesby's head. All the original evidence tends to prove th it Catesby was the founder of the plot he made from time to time with the utmost assurance. A lie was not a lie, if told in the interests of the plot. 'Master Catesby,' complained Garnet, 'did me much wrong, and hath confessed that he told them he asked me a question in Queen Elizabeth's time of the powder action, and that I said it was lawful.

All which is most untrue. He did it to draw in others.' A man of great courage and resolution, he possessed a wonderful power of making his friends both like and serve him. Utterly unscrupulous, he never repented. He never lost heart, and was always sanguine of success. Even when all was up, and his atrocious plans had utterly failed, he died game, falling in a desperate fight with the officers of the Crown, being determined that he should never be taken alive. He expired from his severe wounds, with his arms clasped round the feet of an image of the Virgin, to whose protection he had commended his sinful soul.

The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, 1605. by Crispijn de Passe the Elder, engraving, circa 1605.

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: A history of the Gunpowder Plot: the conspiracy and its agents. Author: Philip Sidney. Edition 2. Publisher: Religious Tract Society., 1905. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Aug 14, 2007. Length: 313 pages. Subjects: Great Britain, Gunpowder Plot, 1605.

3,106 carat Cullinan Diamond

January 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered. Weighing 1.33 pound it was the largest diamond ever found and was the largest polished diamond in the world until the 1985 discovery of the Golden Jubilee Diamond, 545.67 carats, also from the Premier Mine.

Cullinan I is now mounted in the head of the Sceptre with the Cross. The second largest gem from the Cullinan stone, Cullinan II or the Lesser Star of Africa, at 317.4 carats, is the fourth largest polished diamond in the world. Both gems are in the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

The Premier Diamond Mine in South Africa where the Cullinan was found was comparatively new, having only been worked since 1902. It had, however, already produced over $25,000,000 worth 'of the precious stones, and its size is so enormous that it was feared by other diamond mine owners that the output of the Premier in the future will seriously affect the diamond market. This great mine as yet has only been worked on the surface, and when it is considered that it can be worked for thousands of feet deep its estimated value is beyond man's comprehension.

In its rough state the Cullinan was irregular in shape, and it was without doubt only part of a much larger stone, for there were indisputable evidences that on three sides large pieces had been broken off. In fact, by many of the experts who handled it it is believed that it was only a small piece of a very much larger stone, but there was less possibility of reconstructing it than to reconstruct the statue of Venus de Milo. Perhaps, however, the mystery may some day be solved by the other pieces of the stone being found.

In recent years when large stones were discovered it has been a problem as to what disposition should be made of them. This was notably so in the case of the Jubilee and the Excelsior, but when the Cullinan was discovered the problem was further complicated for it was out of the question that any individual buyer could be found for it, as its value in the rough was three-quarters of a million dollars— in other words the stone was priceless.

Of course it could have been broken up into marketable size pieces but such a course would have greatly diminished its value; and so pending a decision of the best adjustment to te made of it the diamond as large as a tumbler was sent to London to repose in the vaults of the Rough Syndicate for safe keeping. Then the Transvaal government conceived a happy thought of presenting the gem to King Edward, and so the historic pebble becomes the property of the Crown of England.

After the decision was reached to present the King with the diamond the serious question arose as to the manner in which it should be cut and polished, for an unpolished stone to the unpracticed eye has about the same luster as a piece of camphor. With this end in view the great diamond firm of J. Asscher, of Amsterdam and Paris, was brought into requisition.

This firm was originally started by the father of the present manager, who descended from a long line of diamond workers. This diamond factory is the largest of its kind in the world, and surely the best adapted to have undertaken such a complicated and intricate work as the cleaving and polishing of a diamond such as the Cullman. The stone was consequently turned over to the Asschers to do with it as their good judgment might dictate. After the diaimond was received at the factory it.was photographed in all possible positions.

Two Views of the uncut stone



The stone cut into several parts



The Stone after Completion

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: Technical world magazine, Volume 11 Author: Armour Institute of Technology. Publisher: American school of correspondence at Armour Institute of Technology, 1909. Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: Dec 12, 2008. Subjects: Technology & Engineering › General Industrial arts, Technology, Technology & Engineering / General Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects.

TEXT RESOURCE: Cullinan Diamond From Wikipedia

Olive Oatman

Olive Oatman Historical counterpart on which character Eva on AMC's Hell On Wheels is loosley based.

"In The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, Mifflin's 2009 contribution to the subgenre of American historical studies known as the pioneer captivity narrative, she recounts the slaughter of Oatman's family by marauding Yavapai Indians near the Gila River in Arizona, Oatman's abduction, and her subsequent assimilation into Mohave tribal culture---so much so that she consented to the chin tattoo that was a traditional signifier of femininity, among the Mohave. Mifflin considers Oatman's transformation from Mormon pioneer girl into what the Victorians melodramatically called a "white savage," analyzing the significance of her years among the Mohave and ultimate return to white society in light of Victorian gender politics."

Summary / Description: Lorenzo D. and Olive Ann Oatman, brother and sister, traveled with their family in 1850 across the Plains. While encamped on the Gila River,they were attacked by Indians who killed most of the family, left Lorenzo for dead, and took Olive and her sister Mary into captivity. Although Mary died in captivity, Olive was eventually ransomed and joined her brother in 1857.

Subject: Oatman, Lorenzo D., ca. 1837- Oatman, Olive Ann Genre / Form Tintypes Studio portraits.

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IMAGE CREDIT: Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library By unattributed (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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• Margot Mifflin Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Olive Oatman Biographer
• Olive Oatman Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Satan's Fall From Grace Paradise Lost

Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“ by Gustave Doré, 1866.

This most extraordinary man, this prince of English poets, this consistent champion of civil and religious liberty, was the son of John Milton and Sarah Caston; they had two other children, Anna, who married Edward Philips; and Christopher, bred to the common law.

Mr. John Milton was born in Bread-street, in the city of London, December 9, 1608,* descended of an ancient family of that name at Milton, near Abingdon, in Oxford, shire, where it had been a long time settled as appears from the monument still to be seen in the church of Milton; till one of the family having taken the unfortunate side in the contest between the houses of York and Lancaster, was sequestered of all his estate, except what he held by his wife.

The poet's grandfather, whose name also was John Milton, was under ranger, or keeper, of the forest of Shotover, near Horton, in Oxfordshire, he being a zealous papist. His father was a polite man, a great master of music, and, by profession, a scrivener, in which calling, through his diligence and honesty, he got a competent estate in a short time; for he was disinherited by his bigoted parents for embracing the Protestant religion, and abjuring the popish idolatry. He lived at the sign of the Spread Eagle, (the armorial bearings of the family,) in Bread-street.

Of his mother, it is said, "she was a woman of incomparable virtue and goodness." John Milton was destined to be a scholar: and partly under domestic tutors, (whereof one was Thomas Young,* to whom the first of his familiar letters is inscribed; and afterwards, Dr. Gill, the chief master of Paul's School, to whom, likewise, the fifth of the same letters is inscribed,) he made an incredible progress in the knowledge of words and things, his diligence and inclination outstripping the care of his instructors; and after he was twelve years of age, such was his insatiable thirst for learning, that he seldom went to bed before midnight.

Being thus initiated into several tongues, and having not slightly tasted the inexpressible sweets of philosophy, he was sent, at the age of fifteen, to Christ's College, in Cambridge to pursue more arduous and solid studies.

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TEXT CREDIT: John Milton: his life and times : religious and political opinions : with an appendix containing animadversions upon Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton, etc., etc. Issue 232 of PCMI Collection. Author: Joseph Ivimey. Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., 1833. Original from: the University of California. Digitized: Dec 3, 2007. Length: 300 pages. Subjects: Literary Criticism › Poetry, Literary Criticism / Poetry, Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poets, English.

"His fall from grace was swift and straight. The doctors didn't hesitate.

What he had they were not sure. He didn't have a temperature.

He fell from grace and hit the ground. He fell into the sea and drowned.

They saw him struggling from the harbor. They saw him wave as he went under."

Satan's Fall From Grace. Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“ by Gustave Doré, 1866. Lyrics, For Liquorice John, Procol Harum mashup/sookietex More about this image and story at Public Domain Clip Art - http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/satans-fall-from-grace-paradise-lost.html

Hansel and Gretel

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Description: Hansel and Gretel by Arthur Rackham (September 19, 1867 – September 6, 1939)

Publication: Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Mrs. Edgar Lucas, translator. Arthur Rackham, illustrator. London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1909.

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"We will go in there," said Hansel, "and have a glorious feast. I will eat a piece of the roof, and you can eat the window. Will they not be sweet?"

So Hansel reached up and broke a piece off the roof, in order to see how it tasted; while Gretel stepped up to the window and began to bite it. Then a sweet voice called out in the room, "Tip-tap, tip-tap, who raps at my door?" and the children answered, "The wind, the wind, the child of heaven;" and they went on eating.

Hansel thought the roof tasted very nice, and so he tore off a great piece; while Gretel broke a large round pane out of the window and sat down quite contentedly. Just then the door opened, and a very old woman, walking upon crutches, came out. Hansel and Gretel were so frightened that they let fall what they had in their hands; but the old woman, nodding her head, said, "Ah, you dear children, what has brought you here? Come in and stay with me, and no harm shall befall you." And so saying, she took them both by the hand and led them into her cottage.

A good meal of milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples and nuts, was spread on the table, and in the back room were two nice little beds, covered with white, where Hansel and Gretel laid themselves down, and rested happily after all their hardships. The old woman was very kind to them, but in reality she was a wicked witch who waylaid children, and built the bread-house in order to entice them in; then as soon as they were in her power she killed them, cooked and ate them, and made a great festival of the day.

Witches have red eyes and cannot see very far; but they have a fine sense of smell, like wild beasts, so that they know when children approach them. When Hansel and Gretel came near the witch's house she laughed wickedly, saying, "Here come two who shall not escape me." And early in the morning, before they awoke, she went up to them, and saw how lovingly they lay sleeping, with their chubby red cheeks; and she mumbled to herself, "That will be a good bite."

Then she took up Hansel with her rough hand, and shut him up in a little cage with a lattice-door; and although he screamed loudly it was of no use. Gretel came next, and, shaking her till she awoke, she said, "Get up, you lazy thing, and fetch some water to cook something good for your brother, who must remain in that stall and get fat; when he is fat enough I shall eat him.'*

TEXT CREDIT: Favorite fairy tales Author: Logan Marshall. Publisher: John C. Winston, 1917. Original: from the New York Public Library. Digitized: Mar 30, 2010. Length: 256. pages, Subjects: Fairy tales.

Edgar Allan Poe

Title: Edgar Allan Poe. Date Created / Published: c1904. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Portrait, head and shoulders, facing front. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-10610 (b&w film copy neg.)

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Call Number: BIOG FILE - Poe, Edgar Allan [item] c-P&P Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Photo of daguerreotype by W.S. Hartshorn 1848; copyright 1904 by C.T. Tatman. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.

Edgar Allan Poe was born at Boston, January 19, 1809. His parents were regular members of the company then playing at the Federal Street Theatre. His father, who was about thirty years of age, had been known in his youth at Baltimore as the son of the ardent Revolutionary patriot, David Poe, whose name he bore, and as, ostensibly, a student of law.

His friends, however, thought of him rather as a clever amateur actor and a boon companion of the Thespian Club; and after he had emigrated to Georgia, where one of his father's brothers had settled, they may have found nothing out of keeping with his affable, impulsive, and unreflecting character in the report that he had left the brown law books ranged on the shelves of his uncle's brother-in-law and gone upon the stage. Old General Poe, as the citizens called him in recognition of his Revolutionary services, was not a man to condone such an offense in his eldest born.

He was in his sixtieth year, with at least three younger children to provide for, and he let the runaway shift for himself, — a situation tediously familiar, in after years, to the young actor, who was most successful on the boards in that part of the "Wild Gallant" which he had first essayed in real life; but his father was by no means the worldly-minded, dry-hearted miser of the playwrights.

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TEXT CREDIT: Edgar Allan Poe American men of letters Author: George Edward Woodberry. Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1885. Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: May 12, 2005. Length: 354 pages Subjects Literary Criticism › American › General Literary Criticism / American / General.

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The Battle of Cowpens

January 17, 1781: The Battle of Cowpens South Carolina.

The British and their Tory allies were guilty of many brutai and cruel acts throughout the western part of the state, where they held almost undisputed sway. A strong post was maintained at Ninety Six, and detachments were sent out to annoy the people almost every day. For the relief of this part of the state, General Greene sent Colonel Morgan with a good force of soldiers. Colonel Morgan began operations by dispatching Lieutenant Colonel Washington to attack a force of Tories who were plundering the people. Washington met these Tories near Hammond's store and completely routed them.

Cornet James Simons led a small force to a fort where General Cunningham had about 150 British militia to guard a supply of provisions and military stores. Simons, without the loss of a man, captured the stores and routed the enemy. These successes caused Cornwallis to fear for the safety of the post at Ninety Six, so he ordered Tarleton to throw himself at once across the path of Morgan. Tarleton took 1200 picked men and started after Morgan, while Cornwallis, to cut off any possible escape, marched northward in the direction of King's Mountain.

Instead of flying from Tarleton, Morgan advanced to meet him. On the 17th of January, 1781, the armies met at a place called Cowpens, and a terrific struggle ensued. Morgan had chosen his position with great judgment, and when Tarleton made his charges he was received with a deadly discharge of musketry. The Americans fired deliberately and at close range. Colonel Washington led a cavalry charge at the turning-point of the battle and won the day. The victory was complete. The British fled and were pursued for miles by the victorious Americans. The terror of Tarleton's name was lost. Eight hundred stand of arms, two cannon, and thirty-five wagons were captured. Congress voted medals to General Morgan and Colonels Washington and Howard, and a sword to Colonel Pickens.

Morgan knew that Cornwallis was close at hand with a strong force, so he prepared for a hasty retreat. He moved across Broad River as soon as he could after the battle. Cornwallis waited two days to make preparations, and that delay saved Morgan, who managed to get across the Catawba River just

Cornwallis came up in pursuit. The river then became much swollen on account of heavy rains, and Cornwallis was unable to get across. Morgan, saved by his delay, hurried on and joined General Greene with his prisoners and plunder. General Davidson was detailed to annoy Cornwallis as he advanced, and his riflemen shot many of the British soldiers.

Description: English: The Battle of Cowpens, painted by William Ranney in 1845. The scene depicts an unnamed black soldier (left) firing his pistol and saving the life of Colonel William Washington (on white horse in center).

Date: 1845. Author: William Tylee Ranney (1813–1857) Link back to Creator infobox template..

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TEXT CREDIT: Fifty lessons in the history of South Carolina Compiled by: John Langdon Weber. Publisher: Ginn & Co., 1891. Original from: the New York Public Library. Digitized: Feb 12, 2008. Length: 202 pages. Subjects: History › United States › State & Local › South, History / United States / State & Local / South, South Carolina.

Houston Texans Cheerleaders

The Houston Texans cheerleaders perform a cheer and dance routine for the troops here at the Club Iwakuni ballroom.

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — Marines and sailors gathered to see the Houston Texans Cheerleaders perform an enthusiastic cheer routine at the Club Iwakuni ballroom.

“The performance was upbeat and encouraging,” said Lance Cpl. Rosbel Alvarado, Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12 ground support equipment maintenance.

“I had a lot of fun.” Prior to the Club Iwakuni performance, the cheerleaders held a cheer and dance class at the IronWorks Gym where children of all ages were given the opportunity to practice cheer routines.

“I think it lifted up the morale greatly,” said Alvarado. “Everyone seemed very involved. We should have more events like these.”

The cheerleaders arrived in Okinawa, Japan where they held the tour’s first performance at Camp Hansen. After their performance at Hansen, the cheerleaders have been traveling base to base, visiting troops stationed in Okinawa.

With countless hours of traveling and little rest time between performances, the cheerleaders often have to overcome fatigue and jet-lag while maintaining enthusiastic and energetic personas during their performances.

“Because of the jet-lag it’s difficult to keep up energy, but we all encourage each other and try to keep the morale going,” said Lindsay Slott, Houston Texans cheerleader.

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Joe Flacco Baltimore Ravens

On August 19, 2009 at McDaniel College, Joe Flacco throws passes to receivers during Military Appreciation Day at Baltimore Ravens training camp. (U.S. Air Force photo by TSgt. Chris Schepers / Released, 175th Wing/Public Affairs, WARFIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Maryland)

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No. 5 Baltimore Ravens Quarterback. Personal information, Date of birth: January 16, 1985. Place of birth: Audubon, New Jersey. Height: 6 ft 6 in. Weight: 245 lb. Career information: College: Delaware. NFL Draft: 2008 / Round: 1 / Pick: 18. Debuted in 2008 for the Baltimore Ravens.

Career history: Baltimore Ravens (2008–present) Roster status: Active Career highlights and awards. All-American Third Team (2007) ECAC Player of the Year (2007) All-CAA First Team (2007) CAA Co-Offensive Player of the Year (2007) 2008 Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Year 2× 2008 Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week (Weeks 8 & 17) AFC Offensive Player of the Week (2008) NFL Offensive Rookie of the Month (October 2008).

Career NFL statistics as of Week 16, 2011. Pass attempts 1,939. Pass completions: 1,175. Percentage: 60.6. TD–INT: 79-46. Passing yards: 13,686. Passer rating: 85.7. Stats at NFL.com

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Elisha 'Eli' Manning New York Giants

Elisha "Eli" Manning of New Orleans, Louisiana – Mr. Manning was the number one pick of the 2004 NFL draft. In his first full season of play, Manning helped the NY Giants secure the 2005 NFC Eastern Division Title throwing 3,800 yards and 24 touchdowns. None of this is surprising given Mr. Manning’s impressive college and prep career at Ole Miss and Isidore Newman High School respectively.

At Ole Miss, Manning earned numerous academic and athletic accolades including the Maxwell Award (nation’s top player), the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award (top senior quarterback), The Sporting News Radio Socrates Award (for excellence in academics, athletics, and citizenship), and was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Year in 2003, the same year he led the Rebels to a SBC Cotton Bowl victory. Other recognitions include multiple appearances on the Ole Miss Chancellor’s and Dean’s Honor Rolls, the NCAA’s Today Top VIII Award (the highest honor awarded by the NCAA to student-athletes), and was a finalist for the Draddy Award (top student-athlete in the nation).

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Jack and the Beanstalk

Still the Giant came on so fast that he was quite close to poor Jack, and had stretched out his great hand to catch him. But, luckily, just at that moment he stepped upon a loose stone, stumbled, and fell flat on the ground, where he lay at his full length.

This accident gave Jack time to get on the Beanstalk and hasten down it; but just as he reached their own garden he beheld the Giant descending after him.

'Mother! mother!' cried Jack, 'make haste and give me the axe.'

His mother ran to him with a hatchet in her hand, and Jack with one tremendous blow cut through all the Beanstalks except one.

'Now, mother, stand out of the way!' said he.

The Giant Breaks His Nece.

Jack's mother shrank back, and it was well she did so, for just as the Giant took hold of the last branch of the Beanstalk, Jack cut the stem quite through and darted from the spot.

Down came the Giant with a terrible crash, and as he fell on his head, he broke his neck, and lay dead at the feet of the woman he had so much injured.

Before Jack and his mother had recovered from their alarm and agitation, a beautiful lady stood before them.

Jack,' said she, 'you have acted like a brave knight's son, and deserve to have your inheritance restored to you. Dig a grave and bury the Giant, and then go and kill the Giantess.'

'But,' said Jack, 'I could not kill anyone unless I were fighting with him; and I could not draw my sword upon a woman. Moreover, the Giantess was very kind to me.' The Fairy smiled on Jack.

'I am very much pleased with your generous feeling,' she said. 'Nevertheless, return to the castle, and act as you will find needful.'

Jack asked the Fairy if she would show him the way to the castle, as the Beanstalk was now down. She told him that she would drive him there in her chariot, which was drawn by two peacocks. Jack thanked her, and sat down in the chariot with her.

The Fairy drove him a long distance round, till they reached a village which lay at the bottom of the hill. Here they found a number of miserable-looking men assembled. The Fairy stopped her carriage and addressed them:

'My friends,' said she, 'the cruel giant who oppressed you and ate up all your flocks and herds is dead, and this young gentleman was the means of your being delivered from him, and is the son of your kind old master, the knight.'

The men gave a loud cheer at these words, and pressed forward to say that they would serve Jack as faithfully as they had served his father. The Fairy bade them follow her to the castle, and they marched thither in a body, and Jack blew the horn and demanded admittance.

The old Giantess saw them coming from the turret loop-hole. She was very much frightened, for she guessed that something had happened to her husband; and as she came downstairs very fast she caught her foot in her dress, and fell from the top to the bottom and broke her neck.

When the people outside found that the door was not opened to them, they took crowbars and forced the portal. Nobody was to be seen, but on leaving the hall they found the body of the Giantess at the foot of the stairs.

Thus Jack took possession of the castle. The Fairy went and brought his mother to him, with the hen and the harp. He had the Giantess buried, and endeavoured as much as lay in his power to do right to those whom the Giant had robbed.

Before her departure for fairyland, the Fairy explained to Jack that she had sent the butcher to meet him with the beans, in order to try what sort of lad he was.

If you had looked at the gigantic Beanstalk and only stupidly wondered about it,' she said, 'I should have left you where misfortune had placed you, only restoring her cow to your mother. But you showed an inquiring mind, and great courage and enterprise, therefore you deserve to rise; and when you mounted the Beanstalk you climbed the Ladder of Fortune.'

She then took her leave of Jack and his mother.

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: The Red fairy book Opie collection of children's literature ; 014:229 Editor: Andrew Lang Edition 2. Publisher: Longmans, Green, 1890. Illustrators: Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941) and Lancelot Speed (1860 – 1931). Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: Oct 7, 2008. Length: 367 pages. Subjects: Fiction › Fantasy › General, Children's stories, Fairy tales, Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology, Fiction / Fantasy / General Social Science / Folklore & Mythology.

'Don't work' sign promoting a holiday to honor the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King

Title: ["Don't work" sign promoting a holiday to honor the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., on a shop on H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

Creator(s): Trikosko, Marion S., photographer. Date Created / Published: 1969 Apr. 3. Medium: 1 negative : film. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-03197 (digital file from original)

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Subjects: King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968--Commemoration. African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Signs (Notices)--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Format: Film negatives--1960-1970.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. On June 10, 1968, James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state penitentiary. He died in prison on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home

NORTH FRONT, OBLIQUE VIEW, FROM THE NORTHEAST - Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, 501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. Title: NORTH FRONT, OBLIQUE VIEW, FROM THE NORTHEAST - Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, 501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. Medium: 4 x 5 in. Reproduction Number: HABS GA,61-ATLA,48--12 (CT)

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Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service. Department of the Interior. Washington, D.C. 20240. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE.

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STYLE (IF APPROPRIATE) Queen Anne, MATERIAL OF CONSTRUCTION (INCLUDESTRUCTURAL SYSTEMS) ijrame with clapboarding; shingles in gables

SHAPE AND DIMENSIONS OF STRUCTURE (SKETCHED FLOOR PLANS ON SEPARATE PAGES ARE ACCEPTABLE) Irregular shape, 4-bay front first story, 3-bay front second story; hipped roof with secon/dary gables; porch with shed roof on front and one side.

EXTERIOR FEATURES OF NOTE, Porch has turned posts and scroll-saw brackets. INTERIOR FEATURES OF NOTE (DESCRIBE FLOOR PLANS, IF NOT SKETCHED) Irregular plan. MAJOR ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS WITH DATES Restoration begun 1974. PRESENT CONDITION AND USE Condition in 1980 was good. Open to public as a historic house museum.

OTHER INFORMATION AS APPROPRIATE SOURCES OF INFORMATION (INCLUDING LISTING ON NATIONAL REGISTER, STATE REGISTERS, ETC.)
Linley, John. The Georgia Catalog, Historic American Buildings Survey. 1982. Listed on National Register of Historic Places. COMPILER, AFFILIATION Druscilla J. Null, HABS.

ADDENDUM TO HABS No. GA-1171 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BIRTH HOME Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site 501 Auburn Avenue 6n(Atlanta &l-ATI A Fulton County . ""^ Georgia.

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Deep Impact space probe

Deep Impact is a NASA space probe launched on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the composition of the comet interior of 9P/Tempel.

This is an artist's rendition of the flyby spacecraft releasing the impactor, 24 hours before the impact event. Pictured from left to right are comet Tempel 1, the impactor, and the flyby spacecraft. The impactor is a 370-kilogram mass with an onboard guidance system. The flyby spacecraft includes a solar panel (right), a high-gain antenna (top), a debris shield (left, background), and science instruments for high and medium resolution imaging, infrared spectroscopy, and optical navigation (yellow box and cylinder, lower left). The fly spacecraft is about 3.2 meters long, 1.7 meters wide, and 2.3 meters high. The launch payload has a mass of 1020 kilograms. Credit: NASA / JPL

Comets are time capsules that hold clues about the formation and evolution of the solar system. They are composed of ice, gas and dust, primitive debris from the solar system's distant and coldest regions that formed 4.5 billion years ago. Deep Impact, a NASA Discovery Mission, is the first space mission to probe beneath the surface of a comet and reveal the secrets of its interior.

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This movie taken by Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft shows the flash that occurred when comet Tempel 1 ran over the spacecraft's probe. It was taken by the flyby craft's high-resolution camera over a period of about 40 seconds. The image has been digitally processed to enhance the view of the comet's nucleus. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UMD (converted to GIF format) (318 × 239 pixels, file size: 222 KB, MIME type: image/gif, looped, 8 frames, 8.0s)

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Louis Daguerre in 1844 by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot

Description: Daguerreotype of Louis Daguerre in 1844 by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (1801 - 1881) Date: 1844. Author: Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (1801 - 1881) Source: This daguerreotype is in the collection of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film.

January 9, 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre

Daguerreotype. The name given to the first successful attempt at photography, in honor of the inventor, Louis Daguerre (1789-1851). This process was perfected in 1839, and consists of a copper plate silvered, and covered, by the action of the vapor of iodine, with a thin film of iodide of silver. By means of the action of light on this iodide of

silver, at the focal point of the camera obscura, a picture of the object is formed on the plate. This result is afterwards "developed" by means of vapor of mercury, and "fixed" by treatment in a solution of sodium hyposulphite. In recognition of the importance of his discovery, the French government awarded to Daguerre a life pension of 6000 francs. See Camera Obscura.

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TEXT CREDIT: 5000 facts and fancies: a cyclopaedia of important, curious, quaint, and unique information in history, literature, science, art, and nature ... Author: William Henry Pinkney Phyfe/ Publisher: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1901. Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: Oct 21, 2010. Length: 816 pages. Subjects: Reference › Encyclopedias, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Reference / Encyclopedias, Reference / Yearbooks & Annuals.

Andrew Jackson The Battle of New Orleans

Andrew Jackson The Battle of New Orleans January 8, 1815

Title: [The Battle of New Orleans] / Edward Percy Moran (1862 – 1935). Date Created / Published: c1910. Medium: 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. Summary: Shows Andrew Jackson standing in front of American flag with sword raised.

Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-3796 (color film copy slide) Call Number: LOT 10043. c-P&P

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Battle of New Orleans.—In December, 1814, a powerful British fleet, carrying over ten thousand troops, approached New Orleans by way of Lake Borgne. It captured the small American naval force on the lake, after a desperate fight.

In the city of New Orleans was General Jackson, with a force of about six thousand men. He hastily built a parapet of earth and cotton-bales a few miles below the city, and planted his marksmen behind it.

On the 8th of January, 1815, the entire British anny, under Sir Edward Pakenham [pak'n-am], advanced to storm the intrenchments. It met a terrible repulse. Jackson won a great victory, killing and wounding two thousand of the British, with a loss of eight men killed and thirteen wounded. Pakenham was killed. This stunning blow caused the British to retreat to their ships, and New Orleans was safe.

TEXT CREDIT: Swinton's condensed United States: a condensed school history of the United States, constructed for definite results in recitation and containing a new method of topical reviews. Author: William Swinton. Edition revised. Publisher: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1871. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Mar 27, 2008. Length: 333 pages Subjects: History › United States › General History / United States / General.

Rust and Mold Never Sleep

Rust and Mold under the air-conditioner at a friends office. The rust is what's left of a window casing. The mold is among the nearby brick.

RUST: Circumstantial evidence convinces us that iron at one time, say thousands of years ago, might easily have been or in fact was distributed over portions of the earth in a metallic state and that the subsequent action of oxygen, sulphur, silica and other elements have converted it into the state in which it is now found and which is commonly called iron ore.

Iron ore resembles rust in appearance and not only contains the two important elements of rust, of which it principally consists, namely (Fe203), but it contains other elements as well, such as sulphur, and silica, &c.; hence it remains for man to undo what nature's laboratory has done for centuries and separate the elements closely united in the composition of the ore and thus obtain the metallic iron for use in the arts.

Rust is a reddish brown deposit, generally noticed on the surface of steel and iron after having undergone deterioration by chemical change, due to exposure to agencies, causing its formation. It ordinarily consists mostly of oxide of iron, together with other minor substances and water.

MOLDS: Molds (or moulds; see spelling differences) are fungi that grow in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae.[1] Molds are not considered to be microbes but microscopic fungi that grow as single cells called yeasts. A connected network of these tubular branching hyphae has multiple, genetically identical nuclei and is considered a single organism, referred to as a colony.

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• Rust prevention Author: Lionel Moses Stern, Published: 1907, Original from: the University of California, Digitized: Oct 24, 2007, Length: 54 pages. Subjects: Corrosion and anti-corrosives.
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The Washington National Cathedral

January 6, 1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.

Description: Washington National Cathedral at twilight, view from the north.

In the Sunday preceding the sessions of the Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a special service, with a patriotic sermon, is always held at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Mount St. Alban, in the District of Columbia.

The history of this national cathedral is both romantic and interesting, and is linked with General George Washington's plans for the Capital City of the United States.

General Washington, in his outline of the city to Major Pierre L'Enfant—the French engineer whose plans were used— included a church for national purposes. The builders of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul have kept this ideal of Washington ever in mind, and have tried to realize his vision of a "great national House of Prayer for all People."

Major L'Enfant, in laying out the city, planned a State church, to be built on the site of the present Patent Office, an "American" Westminster Abbey in effect, yet to belong to no denomination. It is interesting to note the words of L'Enfant on the topic. He thus describes it:

"A Church (to be erected) for national purposes, such as public prayer, thanksgiving, funeral orations, etc.; and be assigned to the special use of no particular denomination or sect; but to be equally open to all. It will likewise be a shelter for such monuments as were voted by the last Continental Congress for the heroes who fell in the cause of liberty."

The State church was never built; yet there was the germ of the idea of a National Cathedral, which was strengthened through the patriotic and religious action of one churchman of that period.

Joseph Nourse, first Registrar of the Treasury, is Washington's intimate friend, anu a man of deeply religious sentiment. He lived on what is now Mount St. Alban, the Cathedral Close. Near his Colonial mansion, and overlooking the infant Capital, was a grove of beautiful oak trees. Here he would often go and pray that some day a church might be built on that spot. The years passed and Joseph Nourse went to his grave with his dream unfulfilled, his prayer unanswered—or so it seemed.

Some years later when his granddaughter, Miss Phcebe Nourse, died, among her effects was found a small box containing fifty gold dollars, with instructions that it be used to erect a "free church on Alban Hill." Touched by her desire to bring her grandfather's prayer to fruition, friends and the boys of a neighboring school dug the foundations, and a small Chapel was erected the same elevation above Washington that the Temple was above Jerusalem is the site of the National Cathedral.

In 1898, in the presence of the Bishops, the Clergy and the lay delegates of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, the President of the United States, and thousands of people, there was raised the Peace Cross, to mark the consecration of the Cathedral site.

At the service of the unveiling of this Cross, President McKinley said: "I appreciate the very great privilege given me to participate with the ancient church here represented, its Bishops and its laymen, in this new sowing for the Master and for men. Every undertaking like this for the promotion of religion and morality and education is a positive gain to citizenship, to country and to civilization, and in this single word I wish for the sacred enterprise the highest influence and the widest usefulness."

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TEXT CREDIT: Daughters of the American Revolution magazine, Volume 56. Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Published: 1922. Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: May 16, 2006. Subjects: Political Science › Constitutions, Political Science / Constitutions, Reference / Genealogy, United States.

Falling Skies

Falling Skies, NWS Louisville Photo Album: Sunsets and Sunrises 2010Sun rays shining through a hole in the clouds, while small soft hail was falling in Adair County on November 4. Kristy Keene.

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Basil of Caesarea Saint Basil the Great

Christian Feast Day: January 2 Basil the Great (Roman Catholic and Anglican Church) Basil of Caesarea Saint Basil the Great.

St. Basil The Great was born about the year 329, of a Christian family, whose high religious character and sacrifices for the cause of truth had been for generations widely known in Asia Minor. It seems probable that the place of his birth was Cssarea, in Cappadocia, the town of which he afterwards became bishop; but his father's connections were more with Pontus than with Cappadocia, and some authorities place Basil's birth in the former province. He himself calls each of these countries in turn his native land.

Basil the elder—for father and son were named alike—was a teacher of rhetoric, and an advocate in large practice. He was a Christian of the best and most earnest type, and when Gregory of Nazianzus addressed his panegyric of the younger Basil to a large audience he was able to assume that the reputation of the father would be known to them all. But the future saint owed his earliest religious education to his grandmother Macrina, who brought him up with his brothers, and formed them upon the doctrine of the great Origenist and saint of Pontus, Gregory Thaumaturgus.

Macrina had not only been taught by the best Christian instructors, but had herself with her husband suffered for the faith. In the persecutions of Maximin she and her family were driven from their home and forced with a few companions to take refuge in a forest among the mountains of Pontus, where they spent nearly seven years, and were wont to attribute to the special interposition of God the supplies of food by which they were maintained at a distance from all civilization.

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IMAGE CREDIT: Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens (1584)

TEXT CREDIT: St. Basil the Great Fathers for English readers, Authors: Richard Travers Smith, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Tract Committee. Publisher: Society for Promoting, Christian Knowledge, 1879. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Sep 17, 2007. Length: 232 pages. Subjects: Biography & Autobiography › Religious, Biography & Autobiography / Religious