“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

One-time Child Prodigy Found Destitute Here

The Painter
Dumas

"either beautiful or true or true and beautiful or surprising or ironic or whatever..."

Sensational Viking

...the qualification of a voter is, having enjoyed a woman in the open air within that district: the candidates are commonly fellows of low humour, who dress themselves up in a ridiculous manner. As this brings a prodigious concourse of people to Wandsworth, the publicans of that place jointly contribute to the expence, which is sometimes considerable.

garret election
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

If I had to choose one photograph, out of the thousands I've seen at the Library of Congress, that made the toil worthwhile, this would be it.

more at db annex

Got the captions for the photochromatics at db annex done, as a way-gone into remiss and belated response to the nice comments and general good will there from - last year! - bibliodyssey and goddelijke gladiolen and of course as always boynton and barista and carolina vigna-maru and improprieties and all the other as yet unknown but not unfound, and all.

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brooks of Pittsfield, Maine, and their twelve daughters posed around stove in kitchen

Paul Kolenda inspecting his ten sons in front of the Detroit offices of their company, a home sanitation systems business

A short slog later there you go - links fixed. The record pages are scripted so you'll have to take my word here that the captions are accurate and direct from the Archives of Ontario.

Oh, Canada!
All those empty links below began with this, then unbeknownst to me, as so much is, the links themselves load from the browser cache so checking them immediately after posting gives the false impression they'll carry through the day, but no.
Hmmm...what to do?

Portrait of woman Toronto 191-?
Archives of Ontario

Every man and woman in Canada can help win this war by practising self-denial
"He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city"
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Man, woman and dog with Royal Military College in background
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Portrait of a woman, likely Violet
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A woman sitting
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A woman and a small boy sitting on a fence
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Woman seated with kittens
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Portrait of woman wearing a fur-trimmed coat and fur hat
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Woman tying her apron
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Woman standing in field of dandelions gone to seed
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Unidentified woman standing in orchard
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Woman standing on shore beside a boat
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A woman outside a building
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Woman posed by a creek with a sailboat in the background
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Portrait of a woman
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A man in a rowboat talks to a woman on the rocky shore
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A woman standing in the woods
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Woman driving a horse-drawn binder
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Soldier talking with a woman
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Woman receiving keys to new Chevrolet Toronto, April 1947
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Woman talking with police officer in Toronto
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Woman cleaning her guns
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A woman and a man conducting a CBC broadcast from a car
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Portrait of a woman and spinning wheel
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Woman registering for a program
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Three men and a woman, possibly immigrants arriving at Quebec, at Gross Pointe
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A woman standing in the crowd at a meeting of the Ontario Labour/Communist group March 27, 1948
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Robertson Davies and a woman with the Dominion Drama Festival Plaque
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Unidentified woman lighting a soldier's cigarette
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Woman on a bicycle at the Canadian Cycling Manufacturer's (C.C.M.) Bicycle Museum
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Street scene showing front of H. Dalton's Shaving Parlor and a residence with a man and woman standing outside Giants then too
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Young woman seated at a piano in a parlour
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Miss Green and another woman seated near a piano, Oak Leaf
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Miss Green and another woman, Oak Leaf
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Portrait of a woman and her dog
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Back view of a Native woman in traditional dress
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Portrait of an Aboriginal woman with her baby on her back
-A night-time bonfire at the Winnipeg Snowshoe Club
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Unidentified woman smoking a cigar
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Young woman smoking bear meat Deer Lake, Ontario June, 1956
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Native woman at Sandy Lake
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Janet Woppumnaweskum, Metis woman, Rupert's House
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Portrait of a woman and a man. The man is seated at a harpsichord. One of them is the Old Stafford music teacher
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Philip Mathew plays the fiddle at Fort Severn
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Woman fishing
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Premier Leslie Frost in native head-dress with his wife and a native woman
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Woman at Fort Severn mending a gill net
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Man playing fiddle for his family outside a hut, Moosonee
-Man and woman in tobacco field

Moosonee by local photographer Paul Lantz