This Week in History, Nov. 17th – 23rd.
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
This week we celebrate the bi-centennial birthday of author Mary Anne Evans, AKA George Eliot. She was the author of seven novels including Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.
Her novel, Middlemarch, may be checked out online through the Clark Library.
“It’s not about you or me; it’s about what we can give to this world.”
Signed into law this week in 1942, SPARS, the United States Coast Guard Women’s Reserve came into existence. Born of the need to free up the traditional male service personal for sea duty during WWII, SPARS filled the need for shore station personnel by recruiting and training a workforce of skilled female officers and enlistees. It continues its vital role to this day.
Our mother’s War: American women at home and at the Front during World War II, may be checked out from (D810.W7 Y45 2004)
“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!”
“…originally intended to appeal to a family audience as an educational program using time travel as a means to explore scientific ideas and famous moments in history”, Doctor Who premiered this week in 1963. The rest, as they say, is history. (History in Time and Space, of course.)
Check out The humanism of Doctor Who: a critical study in science fiction and philosophy, through Clark Library’s online catalog
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2 https://www.history.uscg.mil/Our-Collections/Commemorations/World-War-I/igphoto/2002137985/
3https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doctor_Who_Experience_(8105520673).jpg
