We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4
A scene documenting the daily reality in Gaza, where children gather around a container of water amid a worsening water crisis, as residents struggle to access even the most basic necessities.
Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
Here in New York City, we remember the tragedy of slavery through Dr. Lorenzo Pace’s Triumph of the Human Spirit, a memorial at the oldest and largest known burial site of free and enslaved Africans in North America.
On the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, we honor all those who resisted slavery and fought for their freedom, and we remember those who were killed or died while still enslaved.
We carry their struggle forward by building a city rooted in justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Just found out that Mozart actually learnt to play the piano from his prodigy sister who wasn’t allowed to pursue music and was forced into marriage, they even burnt all her music and all evidence of her playing, the only evidence left a letter Mozart wrote of him praising it.
@Barcelenaa I think it is little unfair for women to bear all the hormonal changes that come with birth control. Maybe men should take some responsibility no?
“The core of Vande Mataram is a hymn to goddess Durga: this is so plain that there can be no debate about it.
Of course Bankim Chandra does show Durga to be inseparably united with Bengal in the end, but no Mussulman can be expected patriotically to worship the ten-handed deity.
The novel Anandamath is a work of literature, and so the song is appropriate in it. But Parliament is a place of union for all religious groups, and there the song cannot be appropriate.”
- Rabindranath Tagore in a letter to Subhash Chandra Bose.
(‘Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore’ edited by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson, Cambridge University Press’,)
So Gurudev was wrong? Just asking.
#VandeMataram
@fuck_u_mean__@f_young_e@msi_hyd@grok In Muslim weddings they ask bride and groom if they are ok with the marriage. If yes, they'll have to reply Qubool hai 3 times. Qubool -> Kabul wordplay on similar pronunciations