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    Ben Bova
    • Contributor: Bova, Ben
    • Date: 2004-10-09
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    Native American Heritage Month Keynote Address by Rep. Tom Cole Five years to the day after being elected to represent Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, Rep. Tom Cole delivered the keynote address for the Library's 2007 celebration of Native American Heritage Month.
    • Contributor: Cole, Rep. Tom
    • Date: 2007-11-06
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    Katherine Dunham on Dunham Technique Katherine Dunham discusses her dance technique and Haitian dancer, Rachel Tavernier, demonstrates the Rocking Horse; Fall and Recovery, and Fall and Recovery with Roll Through. (Content). A Visit with Katherine Dunham, a film by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Patricia Kerr Ross with David Dawkins © Pennebaker Associates, Inc. Filmed in Haiti in 1983. (Copyright). A Film by Chris Hegedus and D. A Pennebaker Used ...
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    Pakistan's Strategic Culture & U.S.-Pakistan Relations Drawing on archival research, Alexander Evans discusses how Pakistan understands its strategic interests and what this means for U.S.-Pakistan relations. How much can the United States influence Pakistan's foreign and domestic policy choices? Are there broader lessons about the nature of U.S. foreign policy and America's ability to effect change overseas?
    • Contributor: Evans, Alexander
    • Date: 2011-11-17
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    Dawn of the Space Age Dr. McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, presented a lecture "Dawn of the Space Age" sponsored by the Science, Technology and Business Division.
    • Contributor: McDowell, Jonathan
    • Date: 2005-09-13
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    Lyre of Ur Project Art historian Andy Lowings discusses "Lyre of Ur Project" in a program sponsored by African and Middle Eastern Division.
    • Contributor: Lowings, Andy
    • Date: 2009-03-17
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    Dan Wells: 2015 National Book Festival Dan Wells discusses "The Devil's Only Friend" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
    • Contributor: Wells, Dan
    • Date: 2015-09-05
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    Lubuto Libraries for Street Children in Africa Across sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV/AIDS epidemic is most severe, a growing number of orphans are heading their own households. In 12 African countries, it is projected that by 2010, 15 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans. To bring literacy and hope to Africa's vulnerable children, Jane Kinney Meyers founded the Lubuto Library Project. Meyers discussed the goals ...
    • Contributor: Meyers, Jane
    • Date: 2008-12-03
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    Roman Totenberg in conversation with Leon Botstein and audience at Kneisel Hall. 1 video recording ; 2 hrs. | Recorded in Kneisel Hall, Blue Hill, Maine. (Venue). Recorded in June, 2000. (Date). 4:3 This has been a presentation of the Library of Congress. Visit us at www.loc.gov
    • Contributor: Totenberg, Roman - Botstein, Leon
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    Yochi Dreazen: 2015 National Book Festival Yochi Dreazen discusses "The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
    • Contributor: Dreazen, Yochi
    • Date: 2015-09-05
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    Marilyn Nelson & Timothy Basil Ering: 2010 National Book Festival National best-selling authors Marilyn Nelson and Timothy Basil Ering appear at the 2010 National Book Festival.
    • Date: 2010-09-25
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    Writing About Music in a Time of Change Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize winner and chief classical music critic for The Washington Post, delivered the 2006 Louis C. Elson Memorial Lecture on "Writing About Music in a Time of Change" in a program sponsored by the Library's Music Division and John W. Kluge Center. The Louis C. Elson Memorial Fund was established at the Library of Congress by Elson's widow, Bertha, to provide ...
    • Contributor: Page, Tim
    • Date: 2006-11-30
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    Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Seattle, Washington, 2013-05-12.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Branch, Taylor - Russell, Bill
    • Date: 2013-05-12

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    Strides in Neuroimaging Pose New Ethical Dilemmas In May 2005, the Library of Congress, the Dana Foundation, Columbia University, and the National Institute of Mental Health gathered leaders in neuroscience and ethics to discuss the rights and wrongs of using or not using new therapies and enhancements. By defining the most advanced and promising research findings, the conference sought to dispel public confusion about what brain science today can and cannot ...
    • Date: 2005-05-10
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    Leopold Sedar Senghor: Thinker, Statesman, Poet Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of philosophy and religion at Northwestern University, gave a lecture titled "Leopold Sedar Senghor: Thinker, Statesman and Poet" in a program sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division. 2006 was the centennial year of the birth of Senghor (1906-2001), who served as Senegal's first president from 1960 to 1980. During his presidency, he set Senegal on the path toward ...
    • Contributor: Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
    • Date: 2006-11-07
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    Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth Century New York City In the 19th century, foundlings -- children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth -- were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens in "Oliver Twist." In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with ...
    • Contributor: Miller, Julie
    • Date: 2009-12-09
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    Eric Carle
    • Contributor: Carle, Eric
    • Date: 2002-10-12
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    Jon Klassen: 2013 National Book Festival Jon Klassen appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
    • Contributor: Klassen, Jon
    • Date: 2013-09-21
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    Adele Logan Alexander: 2010 National Book Festival Author and scholar Adele Logan Alexander appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
    • Contributor: Alexander, Adele Logan
    • Date: 2010-09-25
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    John Hope Franklin: 2006 National Book Festival John Hope Franklin speaks at the 2006 National Book Festival.
    • Contributor: Hope Franklin, John
    • Date: 2006-09-30
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    Human Side of War Panel: 2015 National Book Festival Elliot Ackerman, Roxana Robinson and Phil Klay discuss their war-related novels in a panel moderated by Elizabeth D. Samet at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
    • Date: 2015-09-05
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    Thomas Keneally: 2013 National Book Festival Thomas Keneally appears at the Library of Congress 2013 National Book Festival.
    • Contributor: Keneally , Thomas
    • Date: 2013-09-21
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    Conversation with Pontus Lidberg Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg discusses his career and his Library of Congress/Martha Graham Dance Company co-commission, "Woodland," with Nicholas Brown. Set "Notturno for strings and harp" by Irving Fine, "Woodland" was commissioned for the 90th anniversary season of "Concerts from the library of Congress." Part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival and presented in association with the Embassy of Sweden and Swedish ...
    • Date: 2016-04-01
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    [No caption] Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Title devised by Library staff. On slide (printed): "Edward Van Altena" and "71-79 West 45th Street, New York, N.Y.C." Forms part of: Visual materials from the Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. papers (Library of Congress).
    • Date: 1925
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    Tom Brokaw: 2015 National Book Festival Tom Brokaw discusses his book "The Greatest Generation" with David M. Rubenstein as part of a special presentation on the human side of war at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
    • Contributor: Brokaw, Tom
    • Date: 2015-09-05