{"id":9593,"date":"2019-12-09T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:21:43","slug":"this-week-in-history-dec-8th-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/this-week-in-history-dec-8th-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History, Dec. 8th – 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we celebrate the birthdays of two “Graces”.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans are allergic to change. They love to say, “We’ve always done it this way.” I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

—Grace Hopper<\/a><\/p>\n

American computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper<\/a> was born this week in 1906. She was the inventor of the computer language COBOL. The first language to use actual words in it’s programming rather than numbers.<\/p>\n

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Grace Hopper holding a COBOL manual and standing by a Univac II tape drive1<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Learn more about admiral Hopper and other women who contributed to the creation of the internet by reading, Broadband : the untold story of the women who made the Internet.\u00a0<\/em>It can be found in the Clark Library at QA76.2.A2 E93 2018<\/p>\n

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\u201cEveryone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grace Paley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Born this week in 1922, Grace Paley was an author, poet, teacher and political activist. “in 1969 she came to national prominence as an activist when she accompanied a peace mission to\u00a0Hanoi<\/a>\u00a0to negotiate the release of\u00a0prisoners of war<\/a>.”2<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Author Grace Paley in her home in Thetford, Vt., April 9, 20033<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paley’s book, The little disturbances of man<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0a collection of short stories, can be found at PS3566.A46 L5 1973<\/p>\n

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\u201cSome 60 million years ago, a penguin as tall as Kanye West walked the shores of New Zealand.\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It was this week in 2017 that the journal Nature Communications<\/em><\/a> published the discovery of\u00a0 Kumimanu biceae,\u00a0<\/em>a human size penguin that could rival Clark College’s mascot, Oswald, in size.<\/p>\n

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Neither a giant penguin nor Oswald, but an Adelie penguin instead.4<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Besides being Clark College’s beloved mascot, penguins provide an important and useful study in climate change. Check out, The Ade\u0301lie penguin: bellwether of climate change<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em> online through the Clark Library.<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup>https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/misbehave\/2782902040
\n2<\/sup>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grace_Paley
\n3<\/sup>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/23\/books\/23cnd-paley.html
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