Library of Congress 2023 National Book Festival

The words National Book Festival against a background of colorful illustrations of a pencil, pen, lamp, coffee mug, arrow, heart, heart, thumbtack, and bookmark.

A National Public Radio journalist, Uyghur poet, and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature are among the more than 70 authors, poets, and illustrators speaking at the 23rd annual Library of Congress National Book Festival.

The annual festival will be held in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, August 12, 2023 from 9:00am to 8:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (convert to your time zone).

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National Treasure Hunt: One Step Short of Crazy

National Archives Foundation event page for National Treasure Hunt: One Step Short of Crazy event registration.

History buff that I am, I’ve been a fan of the National Treasure movies since the first movie was released in 2004.

Hard to believe that’s almost 20 years ago!

Yes, I thought some of the theories discussed in the movie were doubtful.

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Show Your Stripes: Michigan

Multicolored graphic displays temperatures from 1895 to 2022 as lines, stacked left to right. Alternating blue, white, and red lines dominate majority of graphic, except for approximately the past 30 years where shades of red and deep red lines dominate.

If you’re someone interested in weather news, you may have seen or heard people talking this week about showing your stripes.

Today is the sixth Show Your Stripes Day, held the first day of summer.

The annual event raises awareness for climate change and rising global temperatures by sharing “warming stripe” graphics, which display how average temperatures have changed since 1895.

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