Baltimore's Gypsy Queen
The story of Baltimore’s Gypsy queen!
Harbor scene showing brigantine “Stormy Petrel”
Baltimore, Maryland
ca. 1900
Unidentified photographer
4x8 inch stereoview glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC2384
The Baltimore Canaries
A brief history of Baltimore’s other professional baseball team.
Mystery Solved!
With some help from our fantastic readers, the MdHS library was able to solve the photo mystery! Check out the truth about the bizarre photo!
Vinegar Valetines! The Anti-Valentine's Day Card
For the one’s you love to hate!
STOP HURTING THE LIBRARY
Glad I wasn’t the only person who felt this irrational feeling.
Was anybody else upset when the library in the Super Bowl commercial started getting destroyed?
YES.
(via libraryoasis)
The Bangkok-based illustrator created a series of digital artworks called “Star Wars in Manuscript” that combines the mythology of the sci-fi franchise with the medieval iconography of orthodox religion.
More info and images at the source.
Awesome!
During her childhood, her family spent every April through November in the Quebec wilderness, where her father, an entomologist, did research for the government. She was 11 years old before she completed a full year of school. When she was about six, she began to write morality plays, comic books, poems, and a novel about an ant that she never finished. While in high school, she wrote poetry and thought about a career in home economics. But, influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, at 16, she committed herself to a writing career. She said, “It was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.
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Adore this woman.
Margaret Atwood, born on this day 1939.
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
(Source: writersalmanac.publicradio.org, via thelifeguardlibrarian)
