Space Shuttle Challenger

Space Shuttle Challenger maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members.

Space Transportation System Number 6, Orbiter Challenger, lifts off from Pad 39A carrying astronauts Paul J. Weitz, Koral J. Bobko, Donald H. Peterson and Dr. Story Musgrave.

Photographer's Name: UnknownLocation: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. Date Shot: 4/4/1983 Date Posted: unknown VIRIN: DF-SC-84-01865.

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January 28, 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.

Abraham Lincoln The Peacemakers 1868

The Peacemakers 1868 President Lincoln (center right) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen in March 1865.

Artist: George Peter Alexander Healy (1818–1894) Date of birth/death July 16, 1818 / June 24, 1894.

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Cat sitting on a wall 2

Cat sitting on a wall - Title: Asakusa tanbo torinomachi mōde. Title Translation: Asakusa ricefields and torinomachi festival. Creator(s): Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858, artist Date Created / Published: [1857] Medium: 1 print : woodcut, color ; 36.3 x 24.1 cm.

Summary: Print shows a cat sitting on a wall where the sliding panels have been opened, watching the festival procession in the rice paddies nearby, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-jpd-02940 (digital file from original print)

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Call Number: FP 2 - JPD, no. 1300, p. 23 (AA size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views of Edo. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Illus. in album: Gajō icchō, p. 23. For another impression, see: FP 2 - JPD, no. 2033 ee. Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Subjects: Cats--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1860. Windows--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1860. Rice paddies--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1860. Festivals--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1860. Parades & processions--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1860. City & town life--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1860. Fuji, Mount (Japan)--1850-1860. Tokyo (Japan)--1850-1860.

Format: Ukiyo-e--Japanese--Color--1850-1860. Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1850-1860. Collections: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915

Cat sitting on a wall

Cat sitting on a wall - Title: Asakusa tanbo torinomachi mōde. Title Translation: Asakusa ricefields and Torinomachi Festival. Creator(s): Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858, artist. Date Created / Published: 1857. Medium: 1 print : woodcut, color ; 33.3 x 22.1 cm.

Summary: Print shows a cat sitting on a wall where the sliding panels have been opened, watching the festival procession in the rice paddies nearby, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-jpd-02894 (digital file from original print)

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Call Number: FP 2 - JPD, no. 2033 ee (B size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views of Edo. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Gift; Max Hausman; 1949 Oct. 5. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Subjects: Cats--Japan--1850-1860. Windows--Japan--1850-1860. Rice paddies--Japan--1850-1860. Festivals--Japan--1850-1860. Parades & processions--Japan--1850-1860. Fuji, Mount (Japan)

Format: Ukiyo-e--Japanese--Color--1850-1860. Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1850-1860. Collections: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915

Robert Burns Day

January 25 Robert Burns Day, Burns Night (Scotland and Scottish community) Portrait of Burns 1787, by Alexander Nasmyth (September 9, 1758 - April 10, 1840).

A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) . The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, January 25, sometimes also known as Robert Burns Day (or Robbie Burns Day) or Burns Night, although they may be held at any time of the year.

Burns suppers may be formal or informal. Both typically include haggis (a traditional Scottish dish celebrated by Burns in Address to a Haggis), Scotch whiskey and the recitation of Burns' poetry.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery: This portrait of Burns, framed within an oval, has become the most well-known and widely reproduced image of the Scottish poet. Nasmyth's painting, commissioned by the publisher William Creech, was to be engraved for a new edition of Burn's poems.

He is shown fashionably dressed against a landscape, evoking his rural background in Alloway, Ayrshire. Burns and Nasmyth became friends, having been introduced to in Edinburgh by a mutual patron, Patrick Miller of Dalswinton. Nasmyth, pleased to have recorded Burns' likeness convincingly, decided to leave the painting in a slightly unfinished state.

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Stanley Frank "Stan the Man" Musial Tribute

Stanley Frank "Stan the Man" Musial born Stanisław Franciszek Musiał; November 21, 1920 – January 19, 2013)

For all our listeners on the St. Louis Cardinals radio network, "Thanks for your time this time 'till next time, good night"

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Cats The Wall Street Persians and the Washington Egyptians

Cats The Wall Street Persians and the Washington Egyptians. - Title: The Wall Street Persians and the Washington Egyptians / L.M. Glackens. Creator(s): Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933, artist. Date Created/Published: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1907 March 27. Medium: 1 photomechanical print : offset, color.

Summary: Illustration shows the battle of Pelusium with the Persians identified as having "Vested Interests" (looking like Chauncey M. Depew), belonging to a "Wall Street Syndicate" (looking like John D. Rockefeller), or a "Railroad Trust", throwing cats labeled "Small Stock Holder, Small Investor, Widow, Little Stock Holder, [and] Orphan" at the bewildered Egyptians who are outside a building labeled "Administration" and flying a banner labeled "Federal Prosecution".

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-26153 (digital file from original print) Call Number: Illus. in AP101.P7 1907 (Case X) [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Title from item. Caption: At the battle of Pelusium, between Egypt and Persia, the Persians armed themselves with cats, the sacred animals of Egypt. The disconcerted Egyptians dared not shoot their arrows, for fear of hitting holy cats. Illus. in: Puck, v. 61, no. 1569 (1907 March 27), centerfold. Copyright 1907 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

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Popeye the Sailor

Popeye, about to eat his spinach, in Fleischer Studios' Little Swee' Pea (1936). Still frame from the animated cartoon "Little Swee' Pea" (1936). The film has fallen into the public domain, as its copyright has expired.

January 17, 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

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Davy Jones' Locker

Davy Jones' Locker - Illustration of Davy Jones sitting on his locker while viewing a 1789 chart of Ferrol Harbor, Spain, belonging to the HMS Howe. The ship had run aground at the mouth of the harbor on 2 November 1892, allegedly after using a poorly prepared naval chart to navigate its waters.

A Royal Navy court-martial opened an inquiry into the conduct of Vice Admiral Henry Fairfax, who was charged with negligence for ordering a hazardous course when the ship entered harbor. On 7 January 1893 the court found that the charge against Fairfax was not proven.

Date: 10 December 1892. Source: Punch, vol. 103. Author: John Tenniel (1820–1914)

This expression of what may be called nautical slang has now become classic. At all events, everybody knows it; and most people may be presumed to know that to 'go to Davy Jones's Locker' is equivalent to 'losing the number of your mess,' or, as the Californian miners say, ' passing in your checks.' Being especially a sea-phrase, it means, of course, to be drowned. But how did the phrase originate? And who was Davy Jones? These questions must have frequently occurred to many, and it is worth while seeking an answer to them. There is an explanation for everything, if one only knows how to look for it. FULL TEXT

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Text credit: Storyology: essays in folk-lore, sea-lore, and plant-lore

Julius Caesar Crossing the Rubicon

January 10, 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.

In 50 BC, the Senate, led by Pompey, ordered Caesar to disband his army and return to Rome because his term as governor had finished.[56] Caesar thought he would be prosecuted if he entered Rome without the immunity enjoyed by a magistrate. Pompey accused Caesar of insubordination and treason. In January 49 BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon river (the frontier boundary of Italy) with only one legion and ignited civil war. Upon crossing the Rubicon, Caesar, according to Plutarch and Suetonius, is supposed to have quoted the Athenian playwright Menander, in Greek, "the die is cast"

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History of Julius Caesar BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS Harper & Brothers, 1876

Unedited image Julius Caesar Crossing the Rubicon

Sunrise over Central Park New York City

Sunrise over Central Park New York City. With the American Museum of Natural History foreground left, the buildings of 5th avenue in the background and Central Park in between. Looking east out my window down west 77th street.

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Cadentown Rosenwald School

Title: RIGHT ELEVATION - Cadentown Rosenwald School, Caden Lane, Lexington, Fayette County, KY. Creator(s): Doerrfeld, Dean A., creator. Date Created / Published: 2004. Medium: 4 x 5 Reproduction Number: HABS KY-288-7

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Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print. Place: Kentucky -- Fayette County -- Lexington. Latitude / Longitude: 37.98861, -84.47778. Collections: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

Rosenwald School is the name informally applied to over five thousand schools, shops, and teachers' homes in the United States which were built primarily for the education of African-Americans in the early 20th century. Julius Rosenwald, an American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, was the founder of The Rosenwald Fund,

HMS Beagle by Conrad Martens

HMS Beagle at Tierra del Fuego painted by Conrad Martens (1801 - August 21, 1878) . HMS Beagle in the seaways of Tierra del Fuego, painting by Conrad Martens during the voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836), from The Illustrated Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, abridged and illustrated by Richard Leakey ISBN 0-571-14586-8.

January 7, 1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of the year.

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Sleeping Cat Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Title: Sleeping Cat. Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). Completion Date: 1862. Style: Impressionism. Period: Early Years. Technique: oil. Material: canvas. Gallery: Private Collection.

Renoir was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working-class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to his being chosen to paint designs on fine china. He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled in art school. During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters.

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Times Square New Year Countdown Clock

Happy New Year! Times Square, looking south right down Broadway. The Countdown Clock is the red rectangle upper left and the Ball will drop from the mast just in front of that. :)

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