Melissa
@emmieelleg.bsky.social
Boilermaker | Mapmaker | History-maker | Library-lover | I voted for her
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@minjinlee.bsky.social Getting in here today just to congratulate you for being in the Sunday NYT crossword AGAIN. Back to my boycott 🩷
January 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@minjinlee.bsky.social Getting in here today just to congratulate you for being in the Sunday NYT crossword AGAIN. Back to my boycott 🩷
Two weeks in the Paul W. Stout Map Collection at Ball State: Doing my part for geographic literacy 🗺️🌎
January 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Two weeks in the Paul W. Stout Map Collection at Ball State: Doing my part for geographic literacy 🗺️🌎
Purdue today!! Sheesh! ☄️
January 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Purdue today!! Sheesh! ☄️
It obviously won’t affect him, but at least DT has to sit there and listen to stories about a true leader and noble man who actually helped people all over the world. President Carter was richer than DT will ever be.
January 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It obviously won’t affect him, but at least DT has to sit there and listen to stories about a true leader and noble man who actually helped people all over the world. President Carter was richer than DT will ever be.
Northwestern had the nerve to wear black and gold unis at Mackey, and it’s not going well for them.
January 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Northwestern had the nerve to wear black and gold unis at Mackey, and it’s not going well for them.
So I guess I do jigsaw puzzles now
December 21, 2024 at 4:35 AM
So I guess I do jigsaw puzzles now
Michele Kang at the @uswnt.bsky.social friendly: “You know we made it because the traffic getting here was atrocious.” 🇺🇸
November 30, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Michele Kang at the @uswnt.bsky.social friendly: “You know we made it because the traffic getting here was atrocious.” 🇺🇸
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Alice Hudson, who, after enrolling in a mandatory geography course in college, took a detour from her plan to become a professional translator and went on to devote her career to building one of the world’s premier public map collections, died this month. She was 77.
Alice Hudson, Librarian Who Built a Trove of Historic Maps, Dies at 77
She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most accessible resources.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Alice Hudson, who, after enrolling in a mandatory geography course in college, took a detour from her plan to become a professional translator and went on to devote her career to building one of the world’s premier public map collections, died this month. She was 77.
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Truly impossible to overstate just how badly America messed this one up.
November 28, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Truly impossible to overstate just how badly America messed this one up.
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Billionaires are bowing down.
Media figures are bending a knee.
Public figures want to accommodate.
It is up to us to form a new opposition.
We will not back down. We must not obey.
Media figures are bending a knee.
Public figures want to accommodate.
It is up to us to form a new opposition.
We will not back down. We must not obey.
November 28, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Billionaires are bowing down.
Media figures are bending a knee.
Public figures want to accommodate.
It is up to us to form a new opposition.
We will not back down. We must not obey.
Media figures are bending a knee.
Public figures want to accommodate.
It is up to us to form a new opposition.
We will not back down. We must not obey.
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Almost half the country is now being held hostage by a rapist felon because we were out-voted by the slimmest majority, by lazy, stupid, sexist, bigots.
November 28, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Almost half the country is now being held hostage by a rapist felon because we were out-voted by the slimmest majority, by lazy, stupid, sexist, bigots.
When you want to depict the size of a World War I-era map of Hungary…enter Dale Evans:
November 27, 2024 at 11:50 PM
When you want to depict the size of a World War I-era map of Hungary…enter Dale Evans:
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When we survive this dark chapter and there are sane people back in charge, can we agree that education and specifically civics education to ensure an informed, educated citizenry will be a high priority?
November 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM
When we survive this dark chapter and there are sane people back in charge, can we agree that education and specifically civics education to ensure an informed, educated citizenry will be a high priority?
My life in the Paul W. Stout Map Collection
November 27, 2024 at 3:33 PM
My life in the Paul W. Stout Map Collection