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Langston Hughes Library
Queens Library at Langston Hughes to Be Recognized as Literary Landmark: Join Us!
Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center will be nationally recognized on Saturday, February 9, 2013, as a Literary Landmark by United for Libraries. It is the...

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Happy Birthday Bill Peet
January 29 marks the birthday of an animator, illustrator and author whose imagination and style helped define children’s entertainment in the 20th Century. His name may not ring bells for...

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Made in Queens: The Worst American Fighter Plane of World War II
The New York Times reported that recently — just off the island of Midway, where the pivotal naval battle of the Pacific War was fought 71 years ago — archaeological divers discovered...

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Dismantling the "Atom Smasher" at Rockaways' Playland, 1987; Queens Library, Arc
How the Roller Coaster Came to Queens
January 20 marks the 127th anniversary of the patenting of the roller coaster. These scream-inducing attractions have spread all over the world and endured their own peaks and troughs of popularity...

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Gene Krupa Birthday
Happy Birthday to a Legendary Percussionist
January 15 marks the birthday of one of the greatest drummers of all time: Gene Krupa. Born in Chicago in 1909, Krupa had been groomed for the priesthood by his parents, but decided to go his...

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