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Letter from J. W. Quiggle to General Giuseppe Garibaldi Regarding Garibaldi's Intention to Join the Army of the North

Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of StateSeries: Despatches from U.S. Consular OfficersFile Unit: Antwerp, June 30, 1805-December 31, 1863 

Antwerp, June 8th 1861.

General Garibaldi:

The papers report that you are going to the United States, to join the army of the North in the conflict of my country. If you do, the name of LaFayette [sic] will not surpass yours. There are thousands of Italians and Hungarians who will rush to your ranks, and there thousands and tens of thousands of American citizens who will glory to be under the command of the "Washington of Italy."

I would thank you to let me know if this is really your intention. If it be, I will resign my position here as Consul and join you in the support of a Government formed by such men as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and their compatriots, whose names it is not necessary for me to mention to you.

I sincerely regret the death of Cavour. He was a great statesman. But you were right in demanding for your officers and soldiers what you did; for they had fought bravely under your command and deserved your highest thought.

With assurances of my profound regard,

Yours &c, [abbr. for et cetera]

(Signed) J. W. Quiggle

To Gen. [General] Garibaldi,

Caprera, Italy. 

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Watching flight of Astronaut Shepard on television.

Collection JFK-WHP: White House PhotographsSeries: Cecil Stoughton's White House Photographs 

Attorney General Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Vice President Johnson, Arthur Schlesinger, Admiral Arleigh Burke, President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy stand around a small television at the White House, Office of the President's Secretary.

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Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Viet Nam.

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information AgencySeries: Miscellaneous Vietnam Photographs 

Five military airplanes fly in formation as bombs drop out of them.

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NASA Image of the Day (June 09, 2026)

Artemis III Crew Announced

NASA announced the Artemis III crew on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, mission specialist; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot; NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, commander; and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, mission specialist, will demonstrate the Orion spacecraft's rendezvous and docking capabilities with test versions from one, or both, American commercial human landing systems in development by Blue Origin and SpaceX.

Image Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

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Scientists once gave a slime mold a tiny food map of the Tokyo area, and the result was wild. They placed oat flakes in the same spots as cities around Tokyo and let the brainless slime mold grow between them. As it searched for food, it built tubes between the oat flakes, then removed weaker paths and kept better ones. The final network looked surprisingly close to Tokyo’s railway system, balancing short routes, efficiency, and backup paths without any brain at all.

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The Breakthrough Starshot project proposed a wild way to reach another star. Instead of sending a huge spaceship, it would send tiny gram-sized robotic probes attached to thin light sails. A massive laser array on Earth would push those sails so fast that they could reach about 20% of the speed of light. In theory, the probes could fly past Alpha Centauri in just over 20 years after launch. It is basically “tiny spaceship, giant laser, nearest star system,” but scientists still have big engineering problems to solve.

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Patent Drawing for C. A. S. Lockwood's Paper Bag

Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark OfficeSeries: Utility Patent Drawings 

Diagram of a paper bag.

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Astronauts on ISS ordered to shelter amid repairs to new leaks, NASA says

NASA astronauts are sheltering in a docked spacecraft as crews work to repair persistent air leaks on the space station.

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Bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy discovered by citizen scientist

Astronomers have discovered a "remarkable" bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy with an enormous arc-like structure extending nearly 1.8 millio

Astronomers have discovered a "remarkable" bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy with an enormous arc-like structure extending nearly 1.8 million light-years across. The newly identified system, detailed in a new paper published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, has a "highly unusual" and asymmetric structure unlike those seen in standard radio galaxies.

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Zealandia was once part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. GNS Science says it later broke away, moved north, and thinned, which helped leave most of it underwater today.

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Maxim Gorky's Appeal to the American People

Collection HH-ARA: American Relief Administration RecordsSeries: American Relief Administration Russian Operations RecordsFile Unit: American Relief Administration Russian Operations vol. 1  

MAXIM GORKY'S APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 

Reprinted from the [underlined] New York Times 

23 July 1921.

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"Moscow, July 13.

"To All Honest People:

"The corn-growing steppes are smitten by crop failure, caused by the drought. The calamity threatens starvation to millions of Russian People. Think of the Russian people's exhaustion by the war and revolution, which considerably reduced its resistance to disease and its physical endurance. Gloomy days have come for the country of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Meneleyev, Pavlov, Mussergsky, Clinka and other world-prized men, and I venture to trust that the cultured European and American people, understanding the tragedy of the Russian people, will immediately succor with bread and medicines.

"If humanitarian ideas and feelings - faith in whose social import was so shaken by the damnable war and its victors' unmercifulness towards the vanquished - if faith in the creative force of these ideas and feelings, I say, must and can be restored, Russia's misfortune offers humanitarians a splendid opportunity to demonstrate the vitality of humanitarianism. I think particularly warm sympathy in succoring the Russian people must be shown by those who, during the ignominious war so passionately preached fratricidal hatred, thereby withering the educational efficacy of ideas evolved by mankind in the most arduous labors and so lightly killed by stupidity and cupidity. People who understand the words of agonizing pain will forgive the involuntary bitterness of my words.

"I ask all honest European and American people for prompt aid to the Russian people. Give bread and medicine.

MAXIM GORKY." 

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Russian Romanov Imperial Children on a vintage postcard

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Researchers in Switzerland found that wastewater and sewage sludge carry tiny traces of precious metals every year. Across the country, they estimated about 43 kg of gold and 3,000 kg of silver in a year. These tiny bits mostly come from industries that use precious metals, like watchmaking, electronics, and gold refining. It sounds like hidden treasure, but in most places the metal is spread out so thinly that recovering it would cost more than it is worth.

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16" Barbette Carriage

Record Group 338: Records of U.S. Army Operational, Tactical, and Support Organizations (World War II and Thereafter)Series: Photographs Related to the Watertown ArsenalFile Unit: [Box 3] 

Original Caption: WATERTOWN ARSENAL. 16" BARBETTE CARRIAGE. DRILLING for traversing roller bearings. Photo June 6, 1921 W.A. 6261 

Three men work drills on the round carriage for a very large gun in Watertown, MA.

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Aerial Photograph of the Inverness Club

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information AgencySeries: Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times 

Original Caption: Toledo, Ohio – An aerial view of the Inverness Club course in Toledo, Ohio, where the competition for the title relinquished by Bobby Jones will begin on July 2nd. June 12, 1931.  

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