{"id":9501,"date":"2019-11-18T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:27:04","slug":"this-week-in-history-nov-17th-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/this-week-in-history-nov-17th-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History, Nov. 17th – 23rd."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

George Eliot<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

This week we celebrate the bi-centennial birthday<\/a> 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Portrait of George Eliot by Samuel Laurence1<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her novel,\u00a0Middlemarch<\/em>, may be checked out online<\/a> through the Clark Library.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s not about you or me; it\u2019s about what we can give to this world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oliva Hooker<\/a><\/p>\n

Signed into law this week in 1942, SPARS<\/a>, the United States Coast Guard Women’s Reserve came into existence.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Two African American SPARS recruits in front of a SPARS poster.2<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our mother’s War: American women at home and at the Front during World War II<\/em>, may be checked out from (D810.W7 Y45 2004)<\/p>\n

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\u201cDoctor Who<\/a>: 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!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…originally intended to appeal to a family audience <\/sup>as an educational program using time travel as a means to explore scientific ideas and famous moments in history”,\u00a0Doctor Who <\/em><\/a>premiered this week in 1963.\u00a0 The rest, as they say, is history. (History in Time and Space, of course.)<\/p>\n

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Photo of the TARDIS from the BBC TV series Doctor Who3<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Check out\u00a0The humanism of Doctor Who: a critical study in science fiction and\u00a0<\/em>philosophy<\/i>, through Clark Library’s online catalog<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup>https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:George_Eliot_by_Samuel_Laurence.jpg<\/p>\n

2<\/sup> https:\/\/www.history.uscg.mil\/Our-Collections\/Commemorations\/World-War-I\/igphoto\/2002137985\/<\/p>\n

3<\/sup>https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Doctor_Who_Experience_(8105520673).jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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