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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...	3.5	17-12-2012	12-17-2012	No	jwalsh	0	Read More..	Login to comment	General	Library	Amelia Earhart, Apple, aviation, Charles Lindbergh, DC-3, Douglas DC-3, flight, Glenn Curtiss, patent wars, Samsung, Samuel Langley, Smithsonian, space race, Wright brothers	Jeremy Walsh	70	Blog entry
Online Community Forum: Help Shape the Future of Queens Library	Named “Library of the Year” in 2009, Queens Library is recognized as one of today’s most innovative and community-focused libraries. But what about tomorrow? Our plan is to get...	0	17-12-2012	12-17-2012	No	MKearl	7	Read More..	7 Comments Login to comment	Books	Library	community, forum, Queens	Queens Library	0	Blog entry
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...	0	14-12-2012	12-14-2012	No	jwalsh	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Movies	Library	Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Broadway musical, Claire Danes, Cosette, Fantine, Geoffrey Rush, Hugh Jackman, Le Mis, Le Miz, Les Miserables, Liam Neeson, original cast recording, Russell Crowe, soundtrack, Uma Thurman, Victor Hugo	Jeremy Walsh	0	Blog entry
"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...	0	04-02-2013	12-12-2012	No	jwalsh	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Music	Library	As Time Goes By, Broadway, Casablanca, Dooley Wilson, Herbert Hupfield, Humphrey Bogart, Ingmar Bergman, jazz standards, piano, songwriting, World War II, WWII	Jeremy Walsh	0	Blog entry
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...	0	12-12-2012	12-12-2012	No	jwalsh	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Books	Library	Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, CIA, Clear and Present Danger, Cold War, espionage, Harrison Ford, Hunt for Red October, ICBM, Jack Ryan, Mark Greaney, nuclear missiles, Patriot Games, Sean Connery, spies, spy, submarines, terrorism, terrorists, th, Tom Clancy	Jeremy Walsh	0	Blog entry