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The Committee currently has oversight of the operations of the Library of Congress, as well as management of the congressional art collection, the National Statuary Hall Collection, and the United States Botanic Garden, but does not have legislative authority. The committee is authorized to accept any work of the fine arts on behalf of Congress ...
An example of a joint committee is the Joint Committee on the Library. [8] Most joint committees are permanent (as with the Library Committee) but temporary joint committees have been created to address specific issues (such as the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War during the American Civil War). Joint committees are also a feature for ...
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Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York. Their deaths ...
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In 1920, a local newspaper publisher turned politician donated his private library to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, containing numerous historical works that detailed the development of ...
It followed a lantern procession on Wednesday evening which ended at the library, where the lights were switched back on. Leader of Liverpool City Council Cllr Liam Robinson: “August 3 was ...
Eleanor Nugent Somerville (September 25, 1863 – July 28, 1952) [1] was the first woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature.Her daughter, Lucy Somerville Howorth, was soon elected to that body as well, and the two became the second mother-daughter pair elected to a state legislature in the United States, behind only Helen Timmons Henderson and Helen Ruth Henderson of Virginia.