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From the Ball Field to the Library of Congress [VIDEO]

The original 1908 recording of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," the song that launched a million seventh-inning stretches, is now an official inductee into the National Recording Registry.

Top 10 Little-Known Washington Wins of 2010

Everyone knows about health care reform, the tax cut deal, the end of "don't ask, don't tell." But in a contentious election year, Washington also managed to do much that, while it got little attention, will nevertheless make a difference in the lives of millions. So we asked our network of contributors on AOL's Seed to...

Library of Congress Photos Highlight Great Depression

The Library of Congress recently released over 1,600 color photos taken during the final years of the Great Depression. Funded by the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, the pictures were taken by several famous photographers, including Jack Delano, Russell Lee and Marjory Collins. With their...

Fix Appears in Declaration of Independence

(July 3) -- With one smudge of a feathered fountain pen back in 1776, American history changed forever. Chemists and archivists analyzing the U.S. Declaration of Independence have long speculated about cross-outs and smudges in Thomas Jefferson's original rough draft of the document. One smudge was much more aggressively...

Background on library of congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States of America, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States.

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