“Although dark energy accounts for more than 70 percent of the energy of the universe, we know very little about it, so each clue is precious,” said Riess, who is credited with codiscovering the dark energy.

It was in the year 1885 that a remarkably singular occurrence in my history happened in St. Louis. In the church at San Francisco the pastor, Henry A. Sawtelle, J. S. Ring, a deacon, and I were very close friends. Mr. Ring had passed on some years previous at San Francisco, and we had an etching taken from a photograph and enlarged to almost life size. This likeness hung over the sitting-room sofa in our chamber, and on my return from the office about six o'clock, as I was resting on the sofa directly under this likeness of Mr. Ring, I went off into a partial doze, when I heard a voice plainly and distinctly utter these words: “We three will soon meet again.” The voice roused me and I immediately told Mrs. Bemis what I had heard, with the remark, “Something is going to happen.” The next day we were apprised of the death of Henry A. Sawtelle, and the hour of his passing away was identical with the time that the voice came to me. Since then long years have elapsed, but no reunion has occurred of the three. The memory of that voice, which I did not immediately recognize, has never been forgotten. The day will come when this meeting will take place, be it a longer or a shorter time before fulfillment. I do not attempt to explain this phenomenon but only mention it as a fact.

CHAPTER VI
Recollections of a long and somewhat uneventful life
Stephen A. Bemis
California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
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Today in History LoC

North Korea: "The land where children are kings."

images of North Korea
Philippe Chancel in Der Spiegel

their earthy rulers

Dartford High Street (detail)
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houseboat stranded on the banks of the Mississippi River (detail) 1930 or -31
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Eleanor, Chicago 1953 (detail)
Harry Callahan
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French military dirigible "République" leaving Moisson for Chalais-Mendon (detail) 1907

Willow Pattern - Cheeseburger
Peter Wade

recent gleanings from the Library:

Tim Sullivan shoe beneficiaries
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Classroom at the Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, showing teacher observing students reading
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Walt Whitman
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William Zeckendorf sits behind desk in his "cylindrical office" in New York City 1952
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Man from Planet X
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Elvis Presley, taking oath in court, following altercation with Ed Hopper and Aubrey Brown (on left)
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White House kitchen between ca. 1891-93
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Sanitation Department workers, Sal Tusa and John Ceffalia, weeding growth of marijuana in a lot on Cozine Avenue near Miller Avenue [Brooklyn] Jul 31, 1958
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Charles Atlas, half-length portrait, shirtless, facing front
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Two Hunter College students covering their faces with books, at police headquarters after they were picked up on narcotics 1968
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Dolce far nientes in parlor
Mary True reclining and reading
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Eliza Grace Symonds Bell seated on velocipede in the garden at Milton Cottage, near Edinburgh, Scotland ca. 1859