By OLIVIA B. WAXMAN
May 25, 2018 The question of why the U.S. celebrates Memorial Day has a clear answer: the holiday now celebrated on the last Monday in May began as a way to remember the approximately 620,000 troops who died during the Civil War. The question of how Americans tend to spend Memorial Day weekend has a clear answer, too: grilling, going to the beach, checking out Memorial Day sales, watching Memorial Day parades, sitting in traffic. But the question of where Memorial Day was started generates a lot of different answers. “Approximately 25 places have been named in connection with the origin of Memorial Day, many of them in the South where most of the war dead were buried,” according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read Article: http://time.com/5291026/memorial-day-started-birthplace-history/ SOCIAL MEDIA:
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For those who wanted to see an aqua-hued orb, sorry but the term "Blue Moon" has nothing to do with the color. Instead, it refers to the appearance of an additional full moon in a given time period. Under the most popular definition today, a Blue Moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. The moon reached its peak full phase at 8:37 a.m. EDT (1237 GMT), but the moon will still look pretty full for the following 24 hours. Read Article: www.livescience.com/62187-what-is-a-blue-moon.html In today’s digital world, we take downloading images quickly and easily for granted. Just a few decades ago downloading images from our spacecraft was not quite so simple. Before there were computers and software that could stitch together digital images, they were printed on photo paper, trimmed by hand, and taped in place on a large black board, according to a detailed diagram of the spacecraft’s photo coverage of a planet. This preliminary mosaic was then photographed and used to provide a rough view of coverage, show latitude and longitude of geographical features, and show gaps in coverage. Additional mosaics were later created with filtered, corrected and enhanced photos, and more precise scale and placement.
In this image from 1972, Patricia “Patsy” Conklin worked in the Bioscience and Planetology Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was one of the people at JPL who assembled Mariner 9 photos into large mosaics. JPL produced 96 mosaic boards of selected areas of the Martian surface, and the United States Geological Survey created others. A photo mosaic was also created on a four-foot globe. Read Article: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/technology-then-and-now Airports today are supposed to help move people onto and off of planes, but they’re also supposed to retain people for indefinite periods of time and ply them with entertainment—food, shopping, and so on. They’re supposed to be welcoming symbols of nations and cities, but also serve as intentional choke points for the security state. And they’re supposed to evoke the grand symbols of aviation’s golden age for pennies on the dollar.
See? Identity crisis. Read Article: https://www.wired.com/story/airport-design-identity-crisis/ Museums are important attractions for every city. They hold the history and culture of the city and its people. They also hold priceless collections of art works from the world’s most popular artists. They hold artifacts that educate the modern men about the ancient civilizations. If you are someone who loves exploring wonderful museums, you should consider visiting the following 7 most renowned museums in the world: 1. The Louvre, Paris (Musee du Louvre) Read Entire Article: http://www.travelnpleasure.com/most-renowned-museums-in-the-world/
You’re prepped and ready to totally nail this job interview . You’ve rehearsed your elevator pitch—in front of the mirror, even. You’ve committed the entire job description to memory. Heck, you even drove a practice route to the interview location to make sure you knew exactly where to park.
So, when the meeting finally rolls around, you’re feeling cool, calm, and collected. That is, until the interviewer jumps right in with the dreaded, “Tell me about a time when…” Suddenly your mouth is dry, your mind is blank, and you have a mental facepalm moment. Why, oh why , didn’t you think to prepare for these types of prompts? Read Article: https://www.themuse.com/advice/6-types-of-stories-you-should-have-on-hand-for-job-interviews ARCHBOLD, Ohio — They don’t make ’em like they used to.
Except at Sauder Village. Visitors to Ohio’s largest living-history farm and village can watch as talented artisans produce the household necessities and luxuries of yesteryear using old-fashioned tools, craftsmanship and creativity. They’ll also learn how the earliest settlers turned the Great Black Swamp, one of the largest swamps in North America, into the fertile fields and bustling towns of northwestern Ohio. Sauder Village was founded in 1976 by Erie Sauder (rhymes with “chowder”), whose Archbold-based Sauder Woodworking Co. became one of the largest ready-to-assemble furniture companies in the world. Sauder grew up in the area, and the workshop where he began his company at age 16 now has a place of honor on the village green, along with a picturesque collection of other historic and reproduction shops and buildings moved to the site. Read Article: http://www.gainesville.com/lifestyle/20170825/travel-at-living-history-farm-residents-toil-la-19th-century-artisans |
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