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How Museums Quietly Shape What We See and Believe

Museum walls shape viewers’ perception through the art of display, building context and prioritizing certain artworks over others.

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The Exhibition at the Louvre Salon in 1787, by Pietro Antonio Martini
December 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses is all about mothers

Mothers don’t normally belong in Latin epics, which were meant to be devoted to warriors and warfare.

by Frances Myatt

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Page from the edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497. A 1497 Venice printed page from Ovid's Metamorphoses, published by Lucantonio Giunti. Features elaborate Renaissance border decoration with mythological scenes, ornate floral patterns, decorative initial letters, and Italian text in two columns beneath a woodcut illustration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses#/media/File:Ovidius_Naso_-_Metamorphoses,_del_MCCCCLXXXXVII_Adi_X_del_mese_di_aprile_-_1583162_Carta_a1r.jpeg
December 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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I think I can

In 24 days, we can finally reuse a more familiar version of The Little Engine That Could, as retold by Watty Piper and illustrated by Lois Lenski.

By John Mark Ockerbloom

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M. C. Jacobs portrait A vintage black and white portrait photograph of Mary C. Jacobs, showing a woman in Victorian-era dress with wire-rimmed spectacles, hair pinned up, wearing a high-collared dark dress with decorative brooch and pleated detailing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_C._Jacobs#/media/File:Mary_C._Jacobs.jpg
December 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🎬 The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is on!

🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.

📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
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Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The Mathilda Effect - The Missing Heroines of Science

By Martha Rossiter

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Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, three-quarter length portrait. A formal black and white portrait of Dr. Lise Meitner, the pioneering Austrian physicist, seated in professional attire with a book in hand before a library bookshelf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner#/media/File:Lise_Meitner_NatGeo.jpg
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Beyond Winnie-the-Pooh: On A.A. Milne’s Romance Novels

Gyles Brandreth Explores the Adult Side of an Iconic Children’s Author

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A. A. Milne, with his son Christopher Robin and the original Pooh Bear, at Cotchford Farm, their home in Sussex, photographed in the year that Winnie-the-Pooh was first published. A 1926 sepia photograph by Howard Coster showing A.A. Milne with his young son Christopher Robin and the original Winnie-the-Pooh teddy bear at Cotchford Farm, taken the year Winnie-the-Pooh was published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne#/media/File:A._A._Milne_with_his_son_Christopher_Robin_Milne_and_Pooh_Bear_-_Howard_Coster_-_NPG_P715.jpg
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Distributed Proofreaders has posted its 50,000th unique title! It is "A Dictionary of the Art of Printing."

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Celebrating 50,000 Titles
This post celebrates the 50,000th unique title Distributed Proofreaders has posted to Project Gutenberg: A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, by William Savage. Congratulations and thanks to all th…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Why Jane Austen's works still resonate, 250 years after her birth

We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.

By Melissa Gray

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Back-view watercolour of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra Austen, 1804. A delicate 1804 watercolor by Cassandra Austen showing her sister Jane Austen from behind, seated outdoors beneath a tree. Jane wears an elegant white empire-waist dress and bonnet, gazing at a pastoral landscape in soft, muted tones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen#/media/File:JaneAustenCassandraWatercolour.jpg
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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For his first trick…

"The art of the murderer… is the same as the art of the magician," is a line in John Dickson Carr's first novel It Walks by Night.

By John Mark Ockerbloom

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A vintage mystery novel cover for "It Walks by Night" by John Dickson Carr. The striking red design features a sinister black silhouette of a hand holding a torn page, with Harper & Brothers publisher logo at bottom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Walks_By_Night#/media/File:ItWalksByNight.jpg
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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The Little-Known Story Of The ‘Year Without A Summer’ That Saw Worldwide Famine And Widespread Snowfall In June

By Austin Harvey

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"Woman Before the Rising Sun (1818), a Caspar David Friedrich painting showing the yellow-tinged sky that followed Mount Tambora’s eruption." - from article
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Ancient Greece to Turner v Constable: Seven of the greatest rivalries in art history

By Kelly Grovier

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Joseph Mallord William Turner auto-retrato The oil painting shows the young artist with tousled blonde hair, wearing formal late 18th/early 19th-century attire including a dark coat and white cravat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner#/media/File:Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner_auto-retrato.jpg John Constable, Self-portrait 1806, pencil on paper, Tate Gallery London. His only indisputable self-portrait, drawn by an arrangement of mirrors. A 1806 pencil self-portrait by John Constable showing his profile, created using an arrangement of mirrors. This intimate drawing, held at Tate Gallery London, is his only authenticated self-portrait, rendered with loose, expressive pencil strokes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable#/media/File:ConstableSelfPortrait.png Artemisia Gentileschi - Self-Portrait as a Lute Player. A Baroque self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi depicting herself as a lute player. The dramatic oil painting shows the artist in elegant blue dress with exposed décolletage, turban-style headwrap, holding a wooden lute against dark background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi#/media/File:Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Self-Portrait_as_a_Lute_Player.JPG
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Who could ask for anything more?

By John Mark Ockerbloom

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Original Broadway programme from 1931. A 1931 Broadway program cover for "Girl Crazy" at the Alvin Theatre, featuring an Art Deco-style illustration of a cowgirl being bucked off a horse, with playful, stylized lettering and whimsical cartoon clouds above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Crazy#/media/File:Girl_Crazy_programme_ethel_merman.jpg
December 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Bats are seeking sanctuary in churches - but they're making an unholy mess

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"Hibernating Virginia big eared bats in cave" - picyrl.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

by Stewart Mottram

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Cropped image from the title Page of an 1884 reprint of A true report of certaine wonderfull ouerflowings of Waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke and other places of England..., originally printed in London 1607. A 17th-century woodcut illustration from a 1607 flood pamphlet (reprinted 1884) depicting catastrophic flooding in England. The scene shows people clinging to trees, a partially submerged church steeple, drowning livestock, and desperate survivors in boats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1607_Bristol_Channel_floods#/media/File:Somerset.gif
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Who ordered this timeline?

By John Mark Ockerbloom

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More about it:
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#movies #publicDomainDayCountdown
A vibrant Art Deco-style poster for "Just Imagine" featuring bold geometric design with an orange spacecraft, stylized figures, and dramatic angles. The text "50 YEARS FROM NOW!" appears at top, with the film title in large letters at bottom. https://www.themoviedb.org/review/65ce219dd8af67018790607a
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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What-if? 5 Small Decisions That Changed History

"History is littered with ‘what-if’ situations that, if handled differently, could have led society in an entirely different direction."

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What-if? 5 Small Decisions That Changed History | TheCollector
History is littered with ‘what-if’ situations that, if handled differently, could have led society in an entirely different direction.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Six centuries of secularism

When the first ‘how-to’ books began to explain the way the world worked, they paved the way for science and secularism

by William Eamon

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Ramon Llull/Raimundus Lullus (1232? - 1316; Encyclopedist) This is a historical engraving of Ramon Llull (also known as Raimundus Lullus), a 13th-14th century Majorcan philosopher, theologian, and encyclopedist (1232?-1316), depicted with flowing beard, ornate Renaissance-era clothing, and pipe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull#/media/File:Ramon_Llull.jpg
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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“Harlem is today the Negro metropolis”

By John Mark Ockerbloom

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Cover image of the book Black Manhattan by Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 The 1930 first edition cover of James Weldon Johnson's "Black Manhattan," published by Alfred A. Knopf. The minimalist design features bold black typography overlaid on an abstract red grid pattern suggesting city streets or architecture. https://archive.org/details/blackmanhattan00john_1/page/n10/mode/1up
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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#OTD in 1875, poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke is born

Rilke was an Austrian poet and novelist He "is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. "

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December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics

by Rohini Subrahmanyam

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A pi pie. A creative pie decorated with the pi symbol (π) in the center and the digits of pi (3.14159265358979323846...) written around the edges, creating a visual pun celebrating the mathematical constant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#/media/File:Pi_pie2.jpg
December 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Ogden Nash makes a splash

Ogden Nash found success after The New Yorker hired him in 1930, launching a long career of humorous, playful verse. His earliest published poems enter public domain pretty soon.

By John Mark Ockerbloom

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Photo of panelist Ogden Nash and Dagmar from the television game show Masquerade Party. This 1950s photo shows poet Ogden Nash with actress/TV personality Dagmar on the game show "Masquerade Party." Nash, wearing glasses and bow tie, sits at a panel desk while the glamorous Dagmar stands beside him. via ABC Television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash#/media/File:Ogden_Nash_Dagmar_Masquerade_Party_1955.jpg
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The Inspiring Story Of Emily Roebling, The Woman Who Helped Build The Brooklyn Bridge

By Ainsley Brown

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The Brooklyn Bridge's Chief Engineer Became Bedridden During Its Construction — So His Wife Took Over
Emily Roebling spent over a decade assisting with the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Shells found in Spain could be among oldest known musical instruments

By Sam Jones

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This is an Aztec conch shell trumpet, called a "quiquiztli", signaler, called a "quiquizoani", in Nahuatl from the Codex Magliabecchi on page 023. This Aztec illustration from the Codex Magliabecchi shows a "quiquizoani" (signaler) blowing a "quiquiztli" (conch shell trumpet). The figure wears traditional dress with feathered headdress and ornaments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_(instrument)#/media/File:Codex_Magliabecchi_Aztec_conch_shell_trumpeter_quiquizoani.png
December 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December 2025

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PG's December 2025 newsletter covers eBook news, copyright/lending updates, anticipation for Public Domain Day 2026, top downloads, upcoming AI audiobooks, self-publishing portal, & community links.

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