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13 Reasons Why ‘Stranger Things’ Has Significantly Changed Your Life

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Congratulations to Ron Chernow, Thomas Kail, and Lin-Manuel Miranda for being chosen by the National Archives Foundation to receive the 2016 Records of Achievement Award!

How has the musical “Hamilton” inspired you?

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Gramercy Park

George Wesley Bellows - 1920

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Get out the butter, it’s Lobster Day!

See the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Ocean Portal for more about lobsters, sea life, and the importance of sustainable seafood in protecting the biodiversity of the oceans.

Or, maybe lobsters in art is more to your liking? Dali’s surrealist Lobster Telephone was recently on display at the @hirshhorn. The Maine native (Mainiac?) Marsden Hartley often had lobster-themed work, such as Lobster on Black Background in the @americanartmuseum’s collection. Lobster match holders at the @cooperhewitt? Or even Lobster-shaped chocolate molds at @amhistorymuseum?? Or the amazing Hiroshige woodblock print at the @freersackler!

In fact, there is a lot of lobster-related art and science going on at the Smithsonian. Take a look at our Collections Search Center for more.

The gif’s source and accompanying scientific illustrations, however, are from The American Lobster; a Study of Its Habits and Development, by Francis Hobart Herrick, published by the US Government GPO in 1895, part of the Bureau of Fisheries series and digitized in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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Hague, Netherlands (by Roman Boed)

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Picturesque Tree House Getaway in Italy Located in a Field of Lavender

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Paris (by Roman Boed)

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Be still my heart.

Oh, the things people shove in books...

One map to rule them all, one Library to bind them.

We just acquired a heavily annotated map of Middle Earth, the setting of the Lord of the Rings. The colourful notes and scribbles which spill across the map were penned by none other than J.R.R. Tolkien! 

It was found only last year, folded inside a book owned by Tolkien’s approved artist, Pauline Baynes. The map is one torn out of her copy of The Fellowship of the Ring, which Tolkien scribbled on to inform her how to draw and colour her own map.

One annotation reads:

Hobbiton is assumed to be approx at latitude of Oxford

So next time you’re in the Library, just imagine you’re in a hobbit hole researching There and Back Again…

Learn more about this map on our website!

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Had a great time learning about the #wisconsin #supperclub thanks to Holly de Ruyter for making such a great film! #oldfashionedthemovie (at Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

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Macbeth (2015) dir. Justin Kurzel

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All hail Macbeth!

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If there’s no grace to be found in things as they are, then you’ll have to find it.

Tobias Wolff, The Art of Fiction No. 183 (via theparisreview)

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Vertical lines separating characters in conflict in Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2014)

“In all of our meetings with Sandra and her colleagues, there are obstacles. For example, one was working with the tiles. Or in the store, you had the containers of vegetables. And the door openings, which you mentioned. We also had a scene where we had two different colors — one wall was made of brick, and on the other side, where the other character was, we had brown. So there’s always something separating the characters in the scenes. And when one of the characters says they’re going to go with Sandra and vote in her favor, the separation disappears.” - Luc Dardenne, in interview with Vulture, here.

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Anna KARINA. 1966.

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Practical Shakespeare Quotes

Do you want to quote more Shakespeare in your life but never find opportunities to say “brevity is the soul of wit”? Do you rarely hang below balconies exchanging love vows with the daughter of your enemy? This is just the list for you. “What an ass am I!” —Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 “I am not a slut,” —As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 3 (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) “Hell is empty and all the devils are here,” —The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2 “Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways,” —Henry IV Part 2, Act 4, Scene 5 “This is the excellent foppery of the world,”

–King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2

“Making the beast with two backs,” —Othello, Act 1, Scene 1 “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool,” —As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1 “To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee,” —Henry VI Part 3, Act 3, Scene 2 (Works great for courting hot widows.) “I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me,” —Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 1 “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me,” —Richard II, Act 5, Scene 5 “Marry, sir, in her buttocks.” —A Comedy of Errors, Act 2, Scene 5 (No judgement here.) “My horse is my mistress,” —Henry V, Act 3, Scene 7 (Uh, there might be something wrong with that.) “Thou dost infect my eyes,” —Richard III, Act 1, Scene 2 “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit,” —Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5 (“Wit” is Shakespearean slang for penis.) “[Wine] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance,” —Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3 “I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, than feed on cates and have him talk to me in any summer-house in Christendom,” —Henry IV Part 2, Act 4 Scene 1 “Now, gods, stand up for bastards!” —King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2 “Villain, I have done thy mother!” —Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 2 (This means exactly what you think it does.) “And thou unfit for any place but hell,” —Richard III, Act 1, Scene 2 “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” —Henry VI Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2

“Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.” —Othello, Act 4, Scene 2

“Out, dunghill!” —King John, Act 4, Scene 3 “This is too long.” —Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2

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If Trump becomes president.

The Worst Is Yet to Come, New York, 1966

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My Husband: I see you're back on tumblr. Me: mmhmm My Husband: are you ever going to post original content? Me: I'm not sure that's really who I am as a person.