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It's National Cat Day! We’re sharing everyone’s favorite feline from the Library's Prints and Photographs Division, Brünnhilde, and some of her friends from the collection. 😻
ALT Photograph shows side view of a cat wearing a winged helmet and breastplate armor in the role of the valkyrie Brünnhilde from the opera Der Ring des Niebelungen. Weidhaas, Adolph Edward, photographer. 1936.
ALT Photograph shows Benjamin Fink, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding Tiger, referred to as "Tige", the White House cat with President Calvin Coolidge. 1924. National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
ALT Seated woman, side view, with a white cat on her shoulder. February 1894 and February 1901. C.M. Bell Studio Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘shindig.’
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ALT WORD OF THE DAY Merriam- Webster OCTOBER 29, 2026 shindig noun | SHIN-dig a big party
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“I have had cats since I was a boy, and all of them were wonderful, but one of them left a mark on my life forever,” @RadioFreeTom wrote in 2024 to honor the memory of Carla, his beloved pet: theatln.tc/LObVsiz1
📸: Courtesy of Tom Nichols
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thread of headlines from newspaper archives about people with the same names as future famous people!!!!
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That line is solid gold when you're in Kinston, but see how it goes over in Lexington...
Vice President JD Vance tells eastern North Carolina on barbecue" "vinegar's best." #ncpol
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Vice President JD Vance tells eastern North Carolina on barbecue" "vinegar's best." #ncpol
Black cats are wonderful 💜 🐾
🐈⬛#BLACKCATAWARENESSMONTH!
🖤Foster/adopt a black cat to help counter the shelter bias they face!
🖤Keep them inside, especially at night!
🖤POST A PICTURE of your little panther in the comments to remind people how adorable & sweet they are!
#Halloween #NationalBlackCatDay #ADI
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Today is National Black Cat Day! A day to celebrate the black cats, raise awareness about their low adoption rates & dispel negative notions about bad luck. So lets celebrate the beautiful black cats in our lives.
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We post this AP style rule pretty much every time change, and it never fails to delight some people and surprise others: It’s daylight saving time, not daylight savings time.
It ends at 2 a.m. Sunday in most of the U.S., when clocks fall back one hour.
Enjoy that extra hour of Halloween night sleep!
apnews.com/article/003f56383…
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A large part of housecat vocalisation toward humans isn't goal-directed communication, but rather, affiliative signaling: a simple call-and-response protocol which establishes that the participants are part of the same social unit. Amongst themselves, most housecat affiliative signaling is non-vocal, but humans aren't really physiologically equipped to respond to such signalling in a feline fashion, and cats, well, they're adaptable.
Which is to say that when your cat yells, and you yell back, so the cat yells again, and so forth, what you're really saying to each other is "hiliiii
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‘Futz’ means “to fool around” or “to behave in a way that is not very serious.”
It is thought to have come from a modification of the Yiddish phrase ‘arumfartsn zikh,’ the literal translation of which is “to fart around.”
Excuse us.
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3 words you can likely cut from your copy
-that
Ex. She knew that the bus would be late.
-ever
Ex. I’m visiting Paris for the first time ever.
-own
Ex. He drove his own car.
#writingtips
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As a former contributing writer to the AP Stylebook, I'll make a ruling here: it should be "Dans Sullivan" like Surgeons General. Like Attorneys General, or courts martial. nitter.cf/migold/status/21147937…
