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"Tattoo for tacos" deal is revived by a San Francisco eatery

Casa Sanchez restaurant offers customers free tacos for life if they get a tattoo of their logo http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=7363877 San Francisco: The Mission http://www.sfgate.com/neighborhoods/sf/mission/ Founding of the Mission Dolores http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/misdolor.html The Cambridge World History of Food: Mexico and Highland Central...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2010/0409
"The Pageant of America" Photograph Archive

In 1926, the United States celebrated its sesquicentennial, and a number of special projects were organized to document the country's people, history, culture, and folkways. One such project was "The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States", published by Yale University Press from 1925 to 1929. Professor Ralph Henry Gabriel edited the work, and all told, it contained 15...

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-pageant-...
"The Rockets' Red Glare": Francis Scott Key and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry

Back in 1814, Francis Scott Key set down a poem that began "O say can you see...." Later this work became the Star Spangled Banner, and it is arguably the best-known part of the War of 1812. This installment of the Teaching With Historic Places Lesson Plans takes a close look at the circumstances at Fort McHenry surrounding the composition of this well-known number. Visitors will find that there...

https://www.nps.gov/articles/-the-rockets-red-glare-francis-...
"To Know Wisdom and Instruction": The Armenian Literary Tradition

The materials here explore the history of the Armenian literary tradition, and are among the finer additions to the Library of Congress's online exhibits. These items complement an in site exhibit at the Library which included the first complete Armenian-language printed Bible and a finely illustrated 1962 Soviet edition of the Armenian national epic. The items here are collected into four primary...

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/armenian-literary-tradition/
"With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty

"On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring that 'separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.' This decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States. This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark judicial case." And, at this exceptional site from the Library...

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/
'As Far As Possible from Forgetfulness': The Trinity College Historical Society

The roots of the Trinity College Historical Society (TCHS) can be traced back to 1892, when Professor Stephen B. Weeks decided to enhance the College's library by collecting a wide range of material on Southern history. The intent was "to rescue from forgetfulness the names and deeds of our first settlers." This website, presented by the Duke University Libraries, allows visitors to learn about...

https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/tchs/intro
'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

The Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN) recently added a section to their site that features an archive related to victims, survivors, and commemoration in post-conflict Northern Ireland. The University of Ulster received funds to tackle the task, and it took them two years to complete it. Visitors interested in an enlightening read about who is considered a victim of 'the Troubles' should...

https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/victims/index.html
100 years after his birth, Broadway remembers one of its own

Loesser deserves more http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/weiss/2430524,frank-loesser-tribute-062710.article Frank Loesser at 100 http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/2010/06/frank_loesser_at_100.html Broadway: Frank Loesser http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/loesser_f.html IBDB: Frank Loesser http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=5613 Frank...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2010/0702
1000 Journals

Last mentioned in the July 9, 2004 Scout Report, 1000 Journals is a Museum 2.0 project (where the audience participates in as well as views the project) from SFMOMA. Organized by Someguy, a San Francisco-based artist and designer, 1000 journals were circulated beginning in August of 2000, initially only to people who asked for them, these people then added something to the journal - writing,...

https://someguy.is/1000-Journals-Project
16th-20th Century Maps of Africa

In 1948, Melville J. Herskovits established the African Studies program at Northwestern University. It was the first of its kind at a major research university in the United States, and since its creation, it has also been actively involved with collecting historic maps of Africa. This particular online collection draws on this legacy of preservation and acquisition, and all told, it contains 113...

https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/collections/1c2e2200-c12...
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