Attention Birders (Or Anyone)! The Great Backyard Bird Count Is Coming To Tacoma!

If you like watching the birds around your home, the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) could use your help. The GBBC is a yearly citizen science project to track world bird populations. It’s sponsored by the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Tacoma Library has helpful resources that can assist you…
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Traveling in Style

Both the Bon Marche and Rhodes Bros. devoted a corner window display to a Hawaiian theme in late January, 1958. Mannequins are shown against a Diamond Head backdrop dressed in appropriate travel apparel for a journey to the Hawaiian Islands. Travelers were more formally attired in the 1950s than in later years. Women wore hats…
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Soviet Gold

In January of 1935, 9,600 tons of gold bearing ore were removed from the holds of the Soviet freighter "Brandon" by huge iron buckets at the ASARCO refinery in Ruston. In 1935, The Soviet Union did not have a large enough smelter of its own to process the tons of ore being extracted from its…
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