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The Wright brothers achieve flight for the first time, December 17, 1903
December 17: The Day Aviation Soared
December 17 is a big day for aviation history. In 1903, Ohio bicycle makers Orville and Wilbur Wright took their homemade craft down to Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina and became the first to...

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The Long Phenomenon of ‘Les Miserables’
Lovers of musical cinema, rejoice! A new adaptation of Les Miserables hit movie theaters December 7, starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried. It’s just the...

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"Casablanca" at 70: That Piano, That Song (And That Songwriter!)
2012 marked the 70th anniversary of the classic 1942 film Casablanca. We hope you made it out to one of Queens Library’s free screenings of the movie. You may know that recently, Sotheby...

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Three Thrilling Decades of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Tom Clancy and co-author Mark Greaney have just released their latest spy thriller, Threat Vector. It’s one of a remarkably long-running series of novels starring Clancy’s best-known...

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Puck magazine, 1918 (via Library of Congress)
Black Fridays of Yore and Lore
The day after Thanksgiving has become the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States, earning the nickname “Black Friday” to set it apart from all the other manic shopping...

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