![]() ![]() Langley began recruiting African-American women with college degrees to work as computers, according to NASA. For example: Williamina Fleming is best known for classifying stars based on their temperature, and Annie Jump Cannon developed a stellar classification system still used today (from coolest to hottest stars: O, B, A, F, G, K, M.)ĭuring World War II, the computer pool was expanded. These women made discoveries still fundamental to astronomy today. In the late 19th and early 20thcentury, female “computers” at Harvard University analyzed star photos to learn more about their basic properties. ![]() The computers worked at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Virginia. The job title designated someone who performed mathematical equations and calculations by hand, according to a NASA history. " Hidden Figures," a 2016 book by Margot Lee Shetterly and a movie based on the book, celebrates the contributions of some of those workers.īeginning in 1935, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), a precursor of NASA, hired hundreds of women as computers. Behind the scenes, they were supported by hundreds of unheralded NASA workers, including "human computers" who did the calculations for their orbital trajectories. In the 1960s, Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn and others absorbed the accolades of being the first men in space. ![]()
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Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Weve all seen an older sibling hug the baby a little too hard. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesus overcame spiritual and physical death and took upon Himself our afflictions, sorrows, and sins (see Alma 7:11–13). Earthly trials are part of mortality and can help us grow to be more like our Heavenly Father.Įssential to the plan is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. ![]() On earth we can have joy and peace, but we will also face temptation, opposition, and adversity and experience trials. One significant purpose of mortality is to gain a physical body. We are on earth because we chose to follow Heavenly Father’s plan. They chose to follow Lucifer, who became the devil, and were cast out of the presence of God (see Revelation 12:7–9). Sadly, one-third of Heavenly Father’s spirit children did not accept the plan. The plan includes all the laws and ordinances of the gospel necessary to gain eternal life, “the greatest of all the gifts of God” ( Doctrine and Covenants 6:13). At a council with all of His children, Heavenly Father presented a plan, known as the “plan of salvation” or “the great plan of happiness” ( Alma 42:5, 8). Before we were born on earth, we lived with our Heavenly Parents as Their spirit children (see Doctrine and Covenants 138:55–56). ![]() ![]() ![]() "Cold Sassy Tree" marks the culmination of a distinguished operatic career for the 73-year-old composer- librettist, one that began in 1955 with his first and still most popular opera, "Susannah." Since then, Floyd has created such landmarks of American opera as "Of Mice and Men" - after "Susannah" his most secure addition to the repertoire - as well as three Houston commissions, "The Passion of Jonathan Wade," "Bilby's Doll" and "Willie Stark."įloyd's outlook is distinctively American (only his "Wuthering Heights" is set elsewhere), and the regional strains that first showed up in "Susannah" infuse "Cold Sassy Tree" as well. Never underestimate the benefits of a lifetime in the theater. ![]() ![]() Each scene plays out with unerring focus, and the work as a whole moves confidently through its entire arc. In three acts spanning more than three hours and encompassing comedy and pathos, group dynamics and individual emotion, he never puts a foot wrong or misjudges a dramatic emphasis. ![]() ![]() ![]() The point of view is Duck’s, looking out over the crowd (we see his back and tail, wings outstretched). The original cover depicted a national political convention. She also showed her first draft cover for Doreen Cronin’s Duck for President. “Weirdly helps me draw ‘sound’ words like BOOM and CRASH because sometimes I can’t imagine what they look like,” she explained. Lewin brought along her cartoon friend, Weirdly, to show the children how to draw expressions: mad, sad, excited, laid back and cool, mischievious, shy. “Anybody want to move to Brooklyn?” she asked. He pays neighborhood kids to model for him. ![]() Ted Lewin paints his realistic watercolors by studying photographs. When she showed her husband’s studio on the fourth floor, she pointed out that it was far bigger than hers, not because he was more important, but because it also housed a photography studio. ![]() Her living room is filled with souvenirs from her world travels–Africa, Australia, the Galapagos–places where she has observed animals and gained inspiration. ![]() Lewin showed photos of her 120 year-old Brooklyn brownstone. Two Kindergarten classes filed into the library with clipboards and crayons, eager to learn from a master cartooner.īut first, Mrs. The whimsical illustrator of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type and countless other barnyard books visited our local elementary school and entertained the kids with a mix of slide show, drawing lesson and Q&A. What a lucky duck–I got to meet the moovelous Betsy Lewin this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is about the conflict between cultural norms of love from Lan’s point of view before and after she emigrates with her affluent family to the USA. The plot involves African traditions, shock of emigrating from Kenya to the USA, adjusting to differences, whether or not still to abide by the rules of a former life in Africa. ![]() ![]() She’s, a teenage African girl named Lanakenua Tanei who, for brevity’s sake let’s call “Lan.” It may also be a metaphor for the main character’s beauty and strength. Concrete Rose, the title, is the name of the main character’s family business, which crafts beautiful items from concrete, a strong and durable material. ![]() ![]() ![]() And though he'd resolved to keep things professional, Cooper's friction with Park soon erupts.into a physical need that can't be contained or controlled. ![]() When more people vanish, pressure to solve the case skyrockets. As they investigate a series of mysterious deaths unlike anything they've seen, every bone in Cooper's body is suspicious of his new partner-even when Park proves himself as competent as he is utterly captivating. But as far as Cooper's concerned, it's failing. Park is an agent of The Trust, a werewolf oversight organization working to ease escalating tensions with the BSI. A new case comes with a new partner: ruggedly sexy werewolf Oliver Park. Hunting for big bad wolves was never part of agent Cooper Dayton's plan, but a werewolf attack lands him in the carefully guarded Bureau of Special Investigations. "An old-fashioned thriller with a few twists." -Library JournalĪn ex-FBI agent is partnered with the enemy in this suspenseful first installment of Charlie Adhara's Big Bad Wolf series ![]() ![]() Although the mermaid fails in her quest to gain the prince’s hand in marriage and thus a human soul, she does learn when she dies that there is ‘life’ after being a mermaid, and that her kind actions in her life (saving the prince’s life, and then letting him live even though it will mean her own death) carry some (long-term) reward. ‘The Little Mermaid’ is that rare and paradoxical thing: a tragic tale with a happy ending. ![]() And that is how the story of the little mermaid ends. But if they travel into a house where a bad child is bringing shame to its parents, a year is added onto their time in this ‘limbo’. Each house they travel into on the breeze, if they find a good child who is a credit to its parents, one year is taken off their three hundred. ![]() Her spirit floats up into the air and she is informed by other mermaid spirits or ‘daughters of the air’ that, whilst they cannot gain a soul, they have a chance to do so if they provide a useful service to the world by bringing cooling breezes to the hot winds in warmer parts of the globe.Īt the end of their three centuries of service, they can create their own everlasting soul – and they can shorten the period of time it takes to earn one. ![]() But when the mermaid sees the prince and his bride sleeping together in his tent on the ship, she cannot go through with it, and hurls the dagger into the sea before diving overboard and dispersing into foam on the surface of the water. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master's soul will wander the earth forever. ![]() Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish: that Ren find the man's finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." - Kirkus (starred review) An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. ![]() ![]() ![]() He forged his reputation around a series of novels - most set in and around New York City - that carried readers from the 1800s to modern times. ![]() His prizes included the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Critics Circle award and both competitive and honorary National Book Awards. “This belief is akin to the scientist’s faith in the scientific method as a way to truth.”ĭoctorow was among the most honored authors of the past 40 years. “Underlying everything - the evocative flashes, the dogged working of language - is the writer’s belief in the story as a system of knowledge,” he wrote in the introduction to his essay collection “Creationists,” published in 2006. Student of political and literary history and how they tell us who we are now.ĭoctorow, who died Tuesday at age 84, was the rare American writer to move gracefully between lives as engaged citizen and solitary inventor. Commentator on wars and presidents and the laws of the land. Doctorow’s.Ĭonjurer of old-time gangsters and ragtime stars. NEW YORK – Few minds were as playful and as serious as E.L. ![]() |