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#OnThisDay 1981 Bob Marley Dies of Cancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g

#OnThisDay 1934 The Dust Bowl Several severe dust storms caused by drought and over farming sweep across the Great Plains of the US, More than 500,000 were homeless or displaced #usa #history #dustbowl

https://www.un.org/en/events/mandeladay/legacy.shtml #OnThisDay Neslon Mandela Become South Africa's President 1994... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8TOP5TNHM&t=4s

#OnThisDay in #history #May10 Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States On May 10, 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. No longer would western-bound travelers need to take the long and dangerous journey by wagon train.... Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured by Union forces 1865 Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first Black president, is inaugurated 1994 In South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is sworn in as the first Black president of South Africa. In his inaugural address, Mandela, who spent 27 years of his life as a political prisoner of the South African government, declared that the time for the healing of the wounds has come. Two weeks earlier, more than 22 million South Africans had turned out to cast ballots in the country’s first-ever multiracial parliamentary elections. An overwhelming majority chose Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC) party to lead the country. Confederate general Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson dies 1863

A Final Congrats To the #MCA Musical Cast and Crew! We are so proud of you!!!

#OnThisDay in #history #May9th Irish adventurer Captain Blood steals crown jewels 1671 Blood, disguised as a priest, managed to convince the Jewel House keeper to hand over his pistols. Blood’s three accomplices then emerged from the shadows, and together they forced their way into the Jewel House. However, they were caught in the act when the keeper’s son showed up unexpectedly, and an alarm went out to the Tower guard. One man shoved the Royal Orb down his breeches while ...Blood flattened the Crown with a mallet and tried to run off with it. The Tower guards apprehended and arrested all four of the perpetrators, and Blood was brought before the king. Charles was so impressed with Blood’s audacity that, far from punishing him, he restored his estates in Ireland and made him a member of his court with an annual pension. FDA approves "the pill" 1960 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world’s first commercially produced birth-control billEnovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois. High-ranking Nazi Hermann Göring is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army 1945 Herman Goering, commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, president of the Reichstag, head of the Gestapo, prime minister of Prussia and Hitler’s designated successor is taken prisoner by the U.S. Seventh Army in Bavaria. Reporter breaks the news of secret bombing in Cambodia 1969 William Beecher, military correspondent for the New York Times, publishes a front page dispatch from Washington, Raids in Cambodia by U.S. Unprotested, which accurately described the first of the secret B-52 bombing raids in Cambodia.

Due to technical difficulties, we will be rescheduling Pedro Reyes and Magalí Arriola. Instead, we will be throwing back to one of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series favorites, Dr. Temple Grandin. Grandin is a Doctor of Animal Science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry in animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor... of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons. Visit https://www.dptv.org/prog/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ for more information.

Looking for work? The LINK is here to help! Monday, November 9th 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Mount Carmel Area Public Library 30 S. Oak St., Mount Carmel, PA... The Link offers professional staff support for: Job matching Career guidance Workforce training Employer recruitment See more

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Free Lunch! Everyone is welcome...Distribution at the library starts at 11:30 until food runs out.

Ibrahim Mahama, internationally known Ghanaian artist and Director of the Savannah Center for the Arts in Tamale, Ghana brings together collaborators of the ambitious Institute for the Humanities-led project, In-Between the World and Dreams: Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator UM Institute for the Humanities and Lead Curator; Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator for Global Contemporary Art at UMMA: University of Michigan Museum of Art: University of Michigan Museum of Art; Neil Alan Barcla...y, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History See them talk on the Penny Stamps Speaker Series this Friday at 8pET. Visit https://www.dptv.org/prog/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ for more information!

The Link will be here to help you! November 9, 2020! Over 200 job opportunities listed.

Vote! It is so important. The last day for a registered PA voter to request a Mail in Ballot or Absentee Ballot is Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020.

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Philippa P.B. Hughes is a social sculptor and creative strategist who produces art-fueled projects that spark humanizing and authentic conversations across political, social, and cultural divides. See her talk on the Penny Stamps Speaker Series this Friday at 8pET. Visithttps://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ for more information!

PBS Books and GBH is honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Veronica Chambers on Facebook Live Friday, October 16 from 12-1pm ET as part of our exciting partnership with The Library of Congress for the 2020 LOC National Book Festival: Celebrating American Ingenuity. Veronica Chambers is a prolific author, best known for her critically acclaimed memoir, Mama’s Girl, which has been course adopted by hundreds of high schools and colleges throughout the country. The New Yorker called Mama’s Girl, a troubling testament to grit and mother loverone of the finest and most evenhanded in the genre in recent years. Born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn, her work often reflects her Afro-Latina heritage.