“Among the notable performers and creators who died in 2018 were Stan Lee, Aretha Franklin, Avicii, Mac Miller and Burt Reynolds.”
Source: Celebrities Who Died in 2018: Aretha Franklin, Stan Lee Remembered – Variety
Monthly Archives: December 2018
44 Islands and 42 Bridges: A Florida Keys Road Trip – The New York Times
A Century of Air Travel in Pictures | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos
“It’s that time of year when many of us are getting ready to head to the airport and hop on a plane en route to family and friends for the holidays. Air travel, like many modern conveniences, is a perk easy to take for granted despite its relatively short history. A visual trip through the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division illustrates some of the developments in air travel over the past century.”
Source: A Century of Air Travel in Pictures | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos
The Endurance of ‘A Christmas Carol’
“Four years later, Dickens had written something that possessed still more “astonishing capabilities.” A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas was first published just before Christmas in 1843, and since then it has never been out of print. Originally written as a tract for the times, this cautionary tale about the ongoing tussle between greed and goodness has been thought of as timely whenever it has been read. Enjoyed by its first readers as a modern expression of the spirit of Christmas—as modern as Christmas cards, which were sent for the first time in the same year as the Carol’s publication—it has since become popular for quite different reasons: the sense of tradition it is thought to embody, a reminder of the simple pleasures that seem to have been lost sight of in the seasonal scrum of shoppers, an annual invitation to the pleasures of nostalgia.”
Five Things You Might Not Know About the Capitol Christmas Tree – National Forest Foundation
Beginning in 1970, the U.S. Forest Service has provided a tree to the U.S. Capitol to celebrate the holiday season. Learn more about this unique and festive tradition.
Source: Five Things You Might Not Know About the Capitol Christmas Tree – National Forest Foundation
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