Join us in celebrating a new milestone in Chronicling America – 15 million pages freely available to all! You can find out more on LC's Headlines and Heroes blog and join the #ChronAmParty on Twitter all day Tuesday, May 21 (today!). Follow the threads and find out about all the fun kinds of “15 Million” things we’ve discovered in Chronicling America – feel free to celebrate with us and tweet your own discoveries! Just add #ChronAmParty and #15MillionPages to your tweet to join the party!

We’ve also been working on new ways to explore and visualize what’s available in Chronicling America and have included a sneak peek in Headlines and Heroes and a more in-depth explanation of these tools in the Library’s The Signal digital libraries blog. Understand and interact with our newspapers in a different way using maps, time-based views, charts of language and ethnic press in American newspapers and more!

Read more about it and follow us all the time on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!

Digital Discounts Offered to Help Mark Anniversary

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Since January, more than 200,000 posts per month on Instagram, a picture-sharing app owned by Facebook, have been tagged with #ad,  #sp or #sponsored, according to Captiv8, an analytics platform that connects brands to social media influencers. Hiring such influencers allows companies to reach a vast network of potential customers: Mr Ronaldo has a combined following of 240m people across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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There's a lot of guesswork about who will be the celeb contestants this season. Until they're revealed, Namrata Thakker lists the names we would love to see on the show!

Bollywood stars continue to post pictures with lovely messages on Earth Day.

Pheasant-Neganigwane, Karen, author.

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A volume of her essays and a collection in her honor.

Today, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School is a prestigious K-12 school serving more than 1,600 students on campuses in Manhattan and Riverdale. But like many long-running New York institutions—including the New-York Historical Society—the school has seen multiple iterations and locations before settling into its current form. The school’s story begins with the Free Kindergarten, which...

The post All Work and No Play: Celebration at the Workingman’s School appeared first on New-York Historical Society.

Milliners stood at the hub of a global trade in everything from handkerchiefs to pocket pistols, purveyors of a thousand fashionable items. The Margaret Hunter shop marks 60 years of interpreting the milliner’s trade. Apprentice milliner and mantua maker Abby Cox shares the history of the little shop on Duke of Gloucester Street.

In 2014, the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute takes a moment to look back on 25 years of preparing teachers to bring the thrill of America’s revolutionary era back into the classroom.

Urvashi Rautela turns 26 on February 25, and she decided to celebrate herself!

Arjun Kapoor looked right at home when he celebrated his girlfriend Malaika Arora's mother Joyce Polycarp's birthday party in Mumbai.

Anupam Kher celebrates birthday with Robert de Niro

Alia Bhatt turns 27!

Quite a few film folk decided to wish their fans and followers on the occasion of Gudi Padwa on March 25.

Bollywood stars post pictures with lovely messages on Earth Day.

Bollywood stars continue to post pictures with lovely messages on Earth Day.

The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) may boycott the closing ceremony of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of the West Bengal Assembly from December 4 to 6 over the Speaker''s permission to allow Congress members to counter the statement of CM Mamata Banerjee on price rise issue.

The Speaker praised Mamata for her work and determination, and pointed out Bengal''s contribution in various fields.

Britain’s largest festival about refugees and sanctuary is more relevant than ever, writes Lydia Noon.

Actor B.J. Novak has a new app for making lists of anything you want. But the real fun is in browsing the lists of celebrities like Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, and Snoop Dogg.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story behind the scenes sizzle reel shown at Celebration 2016.

It's hard to tell what's real or fake today. Celebrities at SXSW sat down with WIRED and tried their best to guess which headlines from the tech news world are real and which are fake. Sad!

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Mathematica and EDI Global staff share insights and read passages from The Little Prince to help call attention to the importance of embracing linguistic diversity in education and literacy interventions.

Starting at 7 p.m EST., tonight Dec. 4, 2019. 

A new Library of Congress exhibition,“Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words,” opens December 5. Celebrate Rosa Parks with us at this opening event. Hear from Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the Honorable John Lewis & others.

WELCOME: Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

REMARKS: The Honorable John Lewis, Representative from Georgia

DISCUSSION: Fred Gray and Jane Gunter, Moderated by Michelle Miller, CBS News The exhibition will immerse visitors in Parks’ words, reflections, handwritten notes and photographs, allowing her to tell her own life story. It is the first exhibition of Rosa Parks’ personal collection.

The exhibition offers an intimate view of this seminal figure’s life – beyond her famous refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus – to reveal the real Rosa Parks, a seasoned activist with a spirit forged over decades of challenging inequality and injustice. Learn more about the exhibition https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/rosa-parks-in-her-own-words/about-this-exhibition/ 

Click here to watch. 

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Netizens celebrate as Kamal Haasan crosses 6 million mark on Twitter

World Red Cross Day 2020: History, significance & celebration

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Is Bani the new Drama queen?

'It's a privilege and honour to be a woman every day of my life!'

Shah Rukh Khan has a confession to make. And Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com was there to capture it on video.

The Kapoor clan gets ready to party!

Happy birthday, Aamir!

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh celebrated their first wedding anniversary by offering prayers at the Venkateswara temple located at the hill town of Tirumala, near Tirupati.

Shraddha Kapoor took some time off from the promotions of her upcoming film Baaghi 3 to celebrate her birthday with her fans and the media.

Isha Ambani started the Holi celebrations early and threw a party for her celebrity friends.

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Leung, Vivienne, author

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