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February is National Library Lovers’ Month.
Memphis Public Libraries (MPL) is a public library system serving Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis Public Libraries has a yearly circulation of 250,000 items and serves 400,000 patrons a year. [1] The library has 18 branches located throughout the city of Memphis and surrounding areas, offering up to 3,400 programs to the public each year. [2]
Library City or town Image Date granted Grant amount Location Notes 1: Brownsville Carnegie Library: Brownsville: Dec 2, 1909: $7,500 121 W. Main St. Built 1910–1912; open 1912–2002, now Chamber of Commerce; possibly designed by Neander M. Woods Jr., Memphis; rehabbed 1993 [3] Listed on National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 2: Old ...
The first Australian Library Week was held in 1968 by the Australian Library Promotion Council. [8] The UK observes Libraries Week. Originally it was a one-day event, National Libraries Day, that began in 2012. [9] It is now a week long observance, more formally organised by CILIP. [10]
A day spa in Milan, Italy A day spa in Wrocław, Poland. A day spa is a business that provides a variety of services for the purpose of improving health, beauty, and relaxation through personal care treatments such as massages and facials. The number of day spas in the US almost doubled in the two years from 2002 to 2004, to 8,734, according to ...
WYPL (89.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station that serves the area of Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States.The station is licensed to the Memphis Public Library & Information Center [2] and provides an open radio reading service to patrons, a type of service usually available elsewhere in the United States only on special leased receivers.
The first European explorer to visit the area of present-day Memphis was Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1541. The high Chickasaw Bluffs protecting the location from the waters of the Mississippi was contested by European settlers as Memphis developed. By 1819, when modern Memphis was founded, it was part of the United States territory.
[9] [2] 1861 – Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed. [10] 1862 Tennessee capital relocated to Memphis from Nashville. [3] June 6: First Battle of Memphis takes place on Mississippi River near town; Union forces take Memphis. [3] 1864 August 21: Second Battle of Memphis. First National Bank of Memphis established. [7] 1866 May: Racial unrest.