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A leaf from the history of the rebellion: sketches of events and persons / by William B. Wilson

Archives, Room Use Only - E470.2.W55 1888




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A history of inventions, discoveries, and origins / by John Beckmann ; translated from the German by William Johnston

Archives, Room Use Only - T15.B3813 1846




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One hundred years: the story of Henley's / by Ernest Slater

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5157.S53 1937




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Telegraphic history / by H.R. Kempe

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5115.K46 1912




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History of the Engineering department / by E.C. Baker

Archives, Room Use Only - HE6935.B35 1939




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Short history of the telegraph: a lecture to the Post Office Telephone and Telegraph Society of London on February 19th 1934 / by H.G. Sellars

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5115.S45 1934




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The early history of data networks / Gerard J. Holzmann, Björn Pehrson

Archives, Room Use Only - TK5115.H65 2003




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From steam to glass: the curious story of Brazilian telecommunication / John Packer

Archives, Room Use Only - HE7994.P33 1996




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Study reveals early family history-based screening of colorectal cancer may help in diagnosis




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Russia celebrates Victory Day amid pandemic




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China's Xi responds to Kim's congratulatory message




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Pete Davidson shares hilarious story of trying to stay sober while quarantining with his mom




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Places in History for August 10, 1861. Aerial Reconnaisance, Sewells Point, Virginia

Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.




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Places in History for August 17th, 1861.

Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.  The site will be updated regularly with selected maps in chronological order.

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Places in History for September 7, 1861: Maps of the Southern United States

Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.  The site sill be updated regularly with a selection of new maps, accompanied by captions, in chronological order.

Click here for more information.




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Places in History for September 20, 1861: Map of Gloucester Point Fort

Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.  The site sill be updated regularly with a selection of new maps, accompanied by captions, in chronological order.

Click here for more information.




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Places in History for December 20, 1861: Drainsville, Virginia

Featuring historic maps from the Library's collections, "Places in History" documents battles and campaigns of the Civil War, as well as other historical events, by examining maps and their historical context.   The site sill be updated regularly with a selection of new maps, accompanied by captions, following the course of the Civil War in chronological order.

Click here to view the "Places in History" web site and Archive.




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“Places in History” To End

The “Places in History” feature of the Library of Congress website is ending.

However, you can keep up with the Library’s map collections by subscribing to our blog, “Worlds Revealed: Geography and Maps at the Library of Congress.” We think you’ll enjoy the stories of the past, present and future of maps and mapping, as well as the exploration of the Library’s incomparable cartographic collections.

Once you subscribe, you may unsubscribe at any time using the "Unsubscribe or change your subscriber preferences" link at the bottom of your email.

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Kerala HC seeks Centre's response on plea challenging move to make Aarogya Setu app mandatory for govt, private sector employees




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Plea in Kerala HC challenges move to make Aarogya Setu app mandatory for govt and private sector employees




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Those coming from red zones will be put in mandatory institutional quarantine for 14 days, says Kerala CM




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Weather Warnings for New South Wales / Australian Capital Territory - land areas. Issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology




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Weather Warnings for Australian Capital Territory. Issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology




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Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin

Recalling the desperate fight for life that used to be waged by juvenile diabetes patients, and commemorating the events of 1921 that inaugurated a new era of hope for them and their families, the New-York Historical Society will present the exhibition Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin from October 5, 2010 through January 31, 2011. Exploring the roles of science, government, higher education and industry in developing and distributing a life-saving drug, the exhibition will bring to life the personalities who discovered insulin and raced to bring it to the world and will tell the story of one extraordinary New York girl—Elizabeth Evans Hughes, daughter of the leading statesman and jurist Charles Evans Hughes—who was among the very first patients to be saved.

End Date: 
January 31st, 2011
Oct 5 2010 to Jan 31 2011
Teaser Image: 
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 to Monday, January 31, 2011
Start Date: 
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Teaser Image Caption: 

Girl injecting herself with insulin (Lilly Girl), 1930. Photograph. Courtesy of Eli Lilly and Company Archives

Recalling the desperate fight for life that used to be waged by juvenile diabetes patients, and commemorating the events of 1921 that inaugurated a new era of hope for them and their families, the New-York Historical Society will present the exhibition Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin from October 5, 2010 through January 31, 2011. Exploring the roles of science, government, higher education and industry in developing and distributing a life-saving drug, the exhibition will bring to life the personalities who discovered insulin and raced to bring it to the world and will tell the story of one extraordinary New York girl—Elizabeth Evans Hughes, daughter of the leading statesman and jurist Charles Evans Hughes—who was among the very first patients to be saved.

To lead visitors through this history, from the discovery of insulin in Toronto by Dr. Frederick Banting in 1921 and its first human trials in 1922 to its widespread use today, Breakthrough will feature digital interactives, film, artifacts and ephemera drawn from the Historical Society's own collections and from archives including those of the University of Toronto, Eli Lilly and Company, the Rockefeller Institute, the Joslin Clinic and the New York Academy of Medicine.

The first chapter will recount the excitement, and the clash of personalities, among the scientists whose research led to the discovery of insulin, beginning in May 1921. Also included in this chapter will be an account of the valiant but heartbreaking efforts of Dr. Frederick Allen in the years before the discovery to prolong the lives of diabetic children through the use of a starvation diet. The story of Elizabeth Evans Hughes, told in part through actual treatment charts and period letters, will bring to life the impact of insulin when it first became available. Because Elizabeth was the daughter of Charles Evans Hughes—Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), United States Secretary of State (1921–1925) and Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941)—her survival provided powerful testimony to the value of insulin, and helped bring the work of Dr. Allen and Dr. Banting to the world's stage.

The exhibition's second chapter will examine how insulin became available for widespread medical use through a partnership between the University of Toronto and Eli Lilly and Company—the first such collaboration between an academic institution and a drug company. Photographs from the Lilly archives will reveal the painstaking early method of manufacturing insulin in mass quantities—an innovative industrial process that ran from the slaughterhouse to the laboratory. Display cases of syringes, vials, testing kits for blood sugar and other equipment will take the story of insulin treatment from the 1920s up through today.

The exhibition's final chapter will tell about recent developments—notably the synthesis of insulin in the 1980s as the world's first biotechnology drug—and the current state of research, development, treatment and demography of diabetes. Included in this chapter will be information about the alarming increase in prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in the past decade, and the ways in which individuals, families and institutions can address this health crisis. The exhibition will conclude with a presentation of Life for a Child, a documentary film produced by the International Diabetes Federation and Eli Lilly and Company to raise awareness of the devastating impact of the disease.

Breakthrough will be installed in the Historical Society's 1,300-square-foot temporary gallery, located just off the 77th Street entrance, while the remainder of the landmark Central Park West building undergoes a $60 million architectural renovation.

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Work resumes in Greater Noida’s Oppo mobile factory

Work resumes in Greater Noida’s Oppo mobile factory




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Online short story contest winner announced

Online short story contest winner announced




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View: Panic must not blind India to the horror story about to unfold

Since companies even in orange and green zones require components from red zones, the economic disruption has remained, and will remain, massive. The virus is still spreading fast, so economist Neelkanth Mishra estimates that red zones will expand from 130 districts to 181. The answer can’t be to keep shutting down more and more districts.




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Noida man who died of cardiorespiratory arrest tested positive for COVID-19




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Shift or close factory, MLA urges Chief Secretary

‘Management violated all norms’




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Now, automatic water-level control system mandatory

Amendments to the Bangalore Water Supply Sewerage Act, 1964, have made installation of automatic water level control system and provision of internal




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A storytelling session for kids about nature

A storytelling session for kids about nature




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Tesla to reopen California factory despite county order

The electric car company told employees to report to work Friday, but a county official said Tesla did not meet the requirements for resuming production.




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Tesla sues California county in factory closure fight, threatens to leave

Tesla said the county's position left it no choice but to take legal action to ensure Tesla and its employees can go back to work




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Punjab govt must set up regulatory body for safety of school children: Harpal Singh Cheema




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Punjab Assembly passes resolution to make Punjabi language mandatory in state govt institutions




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335 passengers with travel history to COVID-19 affected countries untraceable: Punjab govt




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167 missing are not COVID-19 suspected cases but people with foreign travel history: Punjab govt




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Concealing travel history in Punjab can lead to impounding of passport




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Punjab CM warns of strict action for hiding travel history




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COVID-19: Chandigarh makes it mandatory to cover mouth and nose while venturing out of house




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27 new COVID-19 cases with no travel history points to community transmission: Punjab CM




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Punjab moving towards community transmission as 27 coronavirus patients have no travel history: Capt Amarinder Singh




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With 21K NRIs wanting to return, Amarinder for mandatory quarantine




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Punjab ex-DGP files anticipatory bail plea in 29-yr old abduction case




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Seeman booked for defamatory speech

The Kuniyamuthur police here have registered a case against Naam Tamilar Katchi coordinator Seeman for allegedly speaking against the Central Governme




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Fire breaks out in cardboard factory in outer Delhi’s Bawana

A fire broke out in a cardboard factory in outer Delhi’s Bawana on Sunday morning, Delhi Fire Service officials said. However, no one is trapped or in




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This week's sponsor: FullStory

FullStory, the CX platform that captures every interaction on your site for pixel-perfect playback. Get it free, forever. For real.




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10/16:00 CST Marine Wind Warning Summary for the Northern Territory




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Methods for dynamic synchrotron X-ray respiratory imaging in live animals

Small-animal physiology studies are typically complicated, but the level of complexity is greatly increased when performing live-animal X-ray imaging studies at synchrotron and compact light sources. This group has extensive experience in these types of studies at the SPring-8 and Australian synchrotrons, as well as the Munich Compact Light Source. These experimental settings produce unique challenges. Experiments are always performed in an isolated radiation enclosure not specifically designed for live-animal imaging. This requires equipment adapted to physiological monitoring and test-substance delivery, as well as shuttering to reduce the radiation dose. Experiment designs must also take into account the fixed location, size and orientation of the X-ray beam. This article describes the techniques developed to overcome the challenges involved in respiratory X-ray imaging of live animals at synchrotrons, now enabling increasingly sophisticated imaging protocols.




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AP-XPS beamline, a platform for operando science at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory

Beamline 8A (BL 8A) is an undulator-based soft X-ray beamline at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory. This beamline is aimed at high-resolution ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS), soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (soft-XAS) and scanning photoemission microscopy (SPEM) experiments. BL 8A has two branches, 8A1 SPEM and 8A2 AP-XPS, that share a plane undulator, the first mirror (M1) and the monochromator. The photon beam is switched between the two branches by changing the refocusing mirrors after the monochromator. The acceptance angle of M1 is kept glancing at 1.2°, and Pt is coated onto the mirrors to achieve high reflectance, which ensures a wide photon energy range (100–2000 eV) with high resolution at a photon flux of ∼1013 photons s−1. In this article, the main properties and performance of the beamline are reported, together with selected experiments performed on the new beamline and experimental system.