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Hollywood-grade face tracking technology comes to University Libraries
The Virtual Environment Studio at University Libraries at Virginia Tech has upgraded its capabilities with cutting-edge face tracking technology from Faceware, a leading facial animation and motion capture company. This state-of-the-art system, widely used in major Hollywood productions for both video games and films, is now accessible to the Virginia Tech community.
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Archival Adventures - Episode 165: Farewell to Earth by Donald Wandrei | Heron SpecFic # 12
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Farewell to Earth by Donald Wandrei - Sam Moskowitz’s 1940 Classics of Science-Fiction # 1 | Heron Speculative Fiction Collection # 12 This week we started an adventure exploring 1930s science fiction stories that author and sci-fi historian Sam Moskowitz named classics in a 1940 letter to the editor of Astounding Stories. We begin with the first story Moskowitz listed: “Farewell to Earth” by D...
Archival Adventures - Episode 164: It’s All Jelly - History of Gelatin, Part 2 with Archivist Kira
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There’s always room for Archivist Kira to join the adventure! This week we explored the history of gelatin from the mid-20th Century onward, featuring items from Knox Gelatin and Jell-O. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:10:42 Gel-Cookery Recipe Book (Knox) (virginiatech.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VT_INST/1qimi5t/alma991009423849708646) 00:17:51 Fabulous Foods That Are Fun to Fix (Knox) (virgin...
University Libraries welcomes students back for fall 2024 semester
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University Libraries fosters innovation, discovery, creativity, and collaboration through its spaces, technology, services, and people. Students are encouraged to take advantage of the resources available during the fall 2024 semester and beyond.
Archival Adventures: Episode 162 - Submarine History and the CSS H. L. Hunley
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This week we plumbed the depths of the archives for a look at the history of submarines and CSS H. L. Hunley. The Confederate States Ship Horace Lawson Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, the USS Housatonic, in wartime during. This was part of the American Civil War and was an impressive feat! The CSS Hunley also sank, killing everyone on board, and was lost for 131 years b...
Maker Camp: crafting innovation from cardboard to code
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Maker Camp is a four-day camp for students age 10-14 put on by University Libraries. The mission is to get students engaged in hands-on, creative collaboration. The campers were divided into teams and were tasked with designing and building alien dinosaurs out of upcycled materials. They were given access to University Libraries resources and expertise to help complete their creations.
Archival Adventures - Episode 161: Conan, Man of Destiny | Heron Speculative Fiction Collection # 11
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Off to the Hyborian Age! This week ArchivistAnthony continued our exploration of the Heron Speculative Fiction Collection with the December 1955 issue of Fantastic Universe, featuring the novelette “Conan, Man of Destiny” (known today as “The Road of the Eagles”) by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard. The story features the popular character Conan the Barbarian (aka Conan the Cimmerian) an...
Archival Adventures - Episode 160: Civil War Aeronautics
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This week ArchivistAnthony explored the history of aeronautics during the American Civil War. Civil War aeronautics involved the use of balloons for military aerial reconnaissance. The men who piloted the balloons were called aeronauts, and were members of the Aeronautical Corps, or the Union Army Balloon Corps. The idea behind the use of balloons during the Civil War came when President Lincol...
Archival Adventures - Episode 159: Propaganda During the World Wars
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And don't forget to buy war bonds! This week we took a look at food agriculture, and rationing propaganda and publications during the World Wars. Along the way we also looked at how things like paper were rationed during the wars to avoid shortages for the war effort. This week's collections feature Information from both the United States and the United Kingdom during the World Wars. Take a loo...
Archival Adventures - Episode 158: USS Dacotah Engineer's Journal Part 6-Arrival of the CSS Richmond
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Anchors Aweigh! This week ArchivistAnthony continued reading the Phillip Peltz Journal. Peltz was the chief engineer aboard the USS Dacotah during the American Civil War. We resumed with July 9, 1862, when the USS Minnesota took over as flag ship. As the hot summer of 1862 proceeded, the USS Dacotah was grounded multiple times and saw a resumption of conflict versus Confederate Navy ironclads w...
Archival Adventures - Episode 157: Decades of Ads in Pulp Speculative Fiction | Heron Collection # 9
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This week, we explored some print ads of yesteryear using pulp speculative fiction magazines from the Heron Speculative Fiction Collection. We started just before the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and jumped decades through the 1930s and 1940s, ending in 1950 with some post-World War II ads aimed at veterans looking to use their G.I. Bill education benefits. We began with a look at some ads in 192...
Archival Adventures - Episode 156: True Crime: The 1917 trial of Charles Vawter, Jr.
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This week, we delved into some prohibition era true crime at Virginia Tech with a look at the sensationalized 1917 murder trial of professor Charles Erastus Vawter, Jr. Vawter’s father, Captain Charles E. Vawter, Sr. (for whom Vawter Hall is named), was the rector of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC, now Virginia Tech) from 1886 to 1900. Vawter, Jr. was a professor of math...
Archival Adventures - Episode 155: USS Dacotah Engineer’s Journal Part 5 - On the James River
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This week we returned to the Phillip Peltz Journal and the USS Dacotah, joining them on the James River in June and July 1862 while they attacked batteries and hosted President Lincoln as he met with General McClellan at the end of the Peninsular Campaign. We also got our first look at the Union Army Balloon Corps! The USS Dacotah was a steam powered sloop commissioned by the United States Navy...
Archival Adventures - Episode 154: Sheffield vs. Ellison: What is Science Fiction? | Heron Coll.#10
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This week we took a look at a late-1970s debate from the pages of Thrust magazine between authors Charles Sheffield and Harlan Ellison. Their debate centers on one key question: What is Science Fiction? Ellison claims not to be a science fiction author and Sheffield debates this assertion. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:10:02 Thrust sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/thrust 00:14:26 Charles Sheffield sf-encyc...
Archival Adventures - Episode 153: Crossed Letters and Pitman Shorthand
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This week ArchivistAnthony briefly revisited highlights from last week’s episode about Newman Library before exploring two paper saving methods employed during the early days of the United States Postal Service and by soldiers in the American Civil War: Crossed Letters and Pitman Shorthand. Crossed letters (aka Cross-Hatched or Cross-Written) are items where the writing continues after turning ...
Archival Adventures - Episode 152: History of Newman Library
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Archival Adventures - Episode 152: History of Newman Library
Archival Adventures - Episode 151: Things Start to Jell: The Early History of Jell-O
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Archival Adventures - Episode 151: Things Start to Jell: The Early History of Jell-O
Class of 2024: Jack Micallef leaves legacy of creativity and social media savvy
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Class of 2024: Jack Micallef leaves legacy of creativity and social media savvy
Cheesy Nights provides melty morale boost for students during finals
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Cheesy Nights provides melty morale boost for students during finals
Archival Adventures - Episode 150: USS Dacotah Journal Part 4 - Trip to Union Occupied New Orleans
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Archival Adventures - Episode 150: USS Dacotah Journal Part 4 - Trip to Union Occupied New Orleans
Aviation in the Archives: exploring aircrafts, space, and beyond
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Aviation in the Archives: exploring aircrafts, space, and beyond
Archival Adventures - Episode 149: Super Science Stories: Lost Legion | Heron Collection # 8
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Archival Adventures - Episode 149: Super Science Stories: Lost Legion | Heron Collection # 8
Archival Adventures - Episode 148: The Crooked Road
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Archival Adventures - Episode 148: The Crooked Road
Archival Adventures - Episode 147: VT LGBTQ+ History with special guest Archives Assistant Sterling
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Archival Adventures - Episode 147: VT LGBTQ History with special guest Archives Assistant Sterling
Archival Adventures - Episode 146: Christiansburg Institute with special guest curator Jenny
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Archival Adventures - Episode 146: Christiansburg Institute with special guest curator Jenny
Archival Adventures - Episode 145: Bradbury’s Small Assassin | Heron Spec. Fiction Collection # 7
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Archival Adventures - Episode 145: Bradbury’s Small Assassin | Heron Spec. Fiction Collection # 7
Let's pawty! Virginia Tech celebrates therapy dog's birthday
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Let's pawty! Virginia Tech celebrates therapy dog's birthday
Archival Adventures - Episode 144: Virginia Elections
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Archival Adventures - Episode 144: Virginia Elections
Swiss poster collection inspires next generation of designers
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Swiss poster collection inspires next generation of designers
Archival Adventures - Episode 137: VT Atomic Energy Laboratories
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Archival Adventures - Episode 137: VT Atomic Energy Laboratories
starts eventually at 9:40
Oh I love this story! The versatile Bretnor is not well represented on You Tube, alas!
It was starting soon? i hope it was worth waiting,,however long
This is my great grandfather! It’s like “cough” but with a G😊 this video was so cool to watch
I love the content especialy on somerville's thanks a lot
Hi, sorry to bother you, but I came across your channel, searching for an expert in rare art! My family has had this painting of the original art work, by artist ROBERT E. LEE (obviously, not the famous general), but the commissioned artist who painted this September Ladies Home Journal, 1920's oil, cover!🙂 Could it be authenticated it for auction, or for the archives?
*promosm* 💥
What about her liver pills? Info on that and ingredients and other products she made. Chances are they all work cause for sure LP compound works.
Most important part, “made by congress”.
Clark "Y wing" refers to a common airfoil section used in the 1930s-40s. Its most noticeable characteristic was that it had a completely flat bottom, unlike a lot of other airfoils. It was easier to manufacture wings with flat bottoms than ones with convex or concave bottoms, so you see it on a lot of the smaller airplanes from that era where they were willing to accept some performance limitations in order to keep structures simple and affordable.
Yes there was a Junkers in Germany. They made most of the WW2 Luftwaffe's transport aircraft (Ju-52) and dive bombers (Ju-87) and quite a few of their level bombers as well (Ju-88 and its derivatives.) They were very innovative in the First World War as well, with some of the first all-metal aircraft ever made.
At the 18:30 point you ask what the numbers next to the manufacturers' names represent. The first ones are the identifying designators for each particular airplane. For example, "Boeing P-12B" is a "Pursuit" airplane (called "fighter" today, and even back then by everybody in the world except for the United States Army), the "12" is the 12th model of pursuit plane accepted into service at that time, and the "B" usually means that it's the 2nd significantly-different version of the basic P-12 aircraft. I say "usually" because sometimes they skipped a letter for one reason or another. Just above that one is "Boeing XP-12A" and in this case the "P-12" part means that it's the same basic airplane as the "P-12B" but the "A" obviously means that it's the precursor to the B model, and the "X" stands for "Experimental" which was reserved for prototypes. You'll sometimes also see a "Y" instead of "X" which means that the airplane is no longer purely experimental but is being readied for service introduction, with the "Y" series being refinements that usually add things like armament and armor to the basic prototype configuration, and often also have significant improvements in aerodynamics and other things that testing of the "X" model identified as being deficient for one reason or another. There's another kind of designation system in the table as well, for example "De Havilland DH-4B" where the first letters aren't related to the aircraft's mission, but simply are a shorthand identifier of the manufacturer. The "B" on the end, though, still means that it's had enough changes from the original design to need its own unique identifier. The first item in the list shows another characteristic of these designations. When a particular aircraft had more than one primary mission, it could be given more than one initial designator. In this case "PG-1" means that the aircraft was a Pursuit that also could do Ground attack, and the "-1" with no letter suffix means that it's the original version of the design. I say aircraft "could be given more than one initial designator" and that's certainly true today (just look at F/A-18) but as far as I know, "PG-1" was the only time that was actually done back in the day, and I'm sure that "G" was never again used to represent ground attack aircraft. "A" became the standard letter for that, then as now. "A.S" stands for "Air Service" which was what the Army was calling its air branch at the time. That changed to Army Air Corps later, then around the beginning of WW2 it became Army Air Force, and after 1947 the independent United States Air Force. The numbers after "A.S." are serial numbers for each individual aircraft, used for record keeping. In the case of the PG-1, "64245" was the serial number of the first of 3 aircraft of the type that the Army bought, the other two being 64246 and 64247. This page is particularly interesting because it covers the exact period when a major change occurred in the Army's method of identifying its airplanes. Until the end of Fiscal Year 1921, serial numbers were purely sequential, starting with the first airplane the Army had bought. But beginning in FY22 they used the last 2 digits of the year as the first 2 digits of a new aircraft's serial number, assigning those sequentially starting with 1. So the first airplane bought in FY22 would have been 22-1, the second 22-2, and so on. You can clearly see this change in the table, between Boeing MB-3A (s/n 68418) and Boeing AT-3 (s/n 26-374). Since the list is arranged alphabetically by manufacturer, it switches back and forth between the two numbering systems depending on when each of the airplanes was bought. The last thing in the table is still a bit of a mystery to this day. Some of the aircraft show designations like "P-129" and these are special designations assigned to aircraft that were sent to McCook Field (later Wright Field, now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) for testing. Nobody has ever been able to find out what the "P" stood for. Speculations include Project, Program, Procurement or something else.
The GS Law is so different now! I noticed patterns of the org taking out more "masculine" duties that were more relevant during the war and replacing it with more of a caretaker role. I believe BSA has "be prepared" and GS has "do a good turn daily" instead of sharing both. Over time the two orgs have become more separated. Thank you for this topic! It has been my favorite so far! Can VT students access some of these materials in the special collections?
The handwriting at the beginning (25:00) is a children's folk song - Mister Rabbit, Mister Rabbit. Here's a version: ruclips.net/video/c3uJQ-EvJV4/видео.html
I know the ODD FELLOWS... TB1ASK1
If you should ever find anything regarding the McDonnell XP-67 aircraft from 1943-44, or its precursors Model 1, Model 2, and Model 2A, I would be hugely interested! My wife and I wrote the first book ever on that aircraft, recently published, and we're still gathering information to follow it up with a much more comprehensive work. We thought we had a connection with Melvin Gough due to a telegram saying that he would be going to St Louis in connection with XP-67, but we found out that his trip was canceled. A note about the Hughes aircraft - there's a famous film clip of what was supposed to be a water taxi test but that turned into a brief flying hop, taken from a boat speeding along just in front of it. The boat, I just discovered yesterday, was the same one that was later used for the old TV series "McHale's Navy" - PT 694, which was a British Vosper design that was built for Russia but never made it over there. After the war it was bought by Howard Hughes which is how it got to be the camera platform for the Spruce Goose test, and later he sold it on to Universal Studios.
The young man trying to read the penmanship is atrocious @ I had very little difficulty in transcribing the writing in the “company store log” - his lazy transcription practice is terrible for someone that is employed in Special Collections -
Wow i love this!! Wow, you need to research *PromoSM*!!
their faces is 1000% better than any copywriting. Sold!
Oh wow very cool!! I am working on a project that involves thornton page rn, he is very important to UFO history
Pi:ląhuk. Nahą:pipi Charles mįkilá:kewa. Raleigh, NC watí:wa. Míma Monacan Yesą. (Thank you. Good day. My name is Charles. I live in Raleigh, NC. I am of the Monacan people.) 36:17 Correct. Pictured are some future Chiefs and councilmen. 41:45 I was there. Makes me feel old. I was 11 years old that week. 45:44 It is a white buffalo not a lamb. The great white buffalo is a sacred animal. Buffalo left the area in the late 1700s into the early 1800s.
Cool 🤩
Very educative...
"this is going to be racist" followed by giggling? Listen, I get wanting to have engaging info online that shows off your collection, but I genuinely think you could have taken a minute to plan out how to bring in folks from your university who work in this era or know what context to bring to the table for this. Doing a cold read of an archival piece is not a good engagement plan, and does a disservice to a community that might be trying to learn. Please just reach out to scholars at your uni next time.
The damage done by the HOLC is so high its immeasurable. Every RED LINED district in America is failing. They have turned major cities into cess pool of crime, unemployment and food deserts.
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Wow 8 years
Nebula price of $.50 was relatively high because the magazine is Scottish and had to be imported. Also the reason Merrill's story in the Fantastic was not mentioned in the database entry on the magazine is that the Fantastic at the time consisted of reprinted stories. They weren't original to the magazine. I got this information from the encyclopedia entry you were quoting, but you somehow skipped over this relatively important point.
The area still has a lot of issues with the kkk
Design Home duroooooooo
NNanaanan buenardaaaa a mí, osea norma no me gusta pero a mí hijo si. Epicaaa alto juego me hago jajajajaj nanaa no te caes. Me hace acordar a Thomas Edison en los Simpsons, nada más que es distinto el modelo. Saludo desde Argentina!!!! :) xD
I want one
VTLibraries
why is there an egg in the middle? hahaha
not one sad face, Im sold
dont watch this while ur tripping lol
Why not? Nothing pops out at you or anything lmao
controool!!
I think most ppl had an issue of her being on the real l word which is a show about real lesbians. I think what ppl were upset about is that she claimed to be 100% lesbian which was not true. I think if she was upfront initially this wouldn't be such a big deal. Just seemed a little shady the way she went about it.
GaddahRa spun chair
absolutely beautiful and this video has honestly touched my heart, such joy!
What?
LOL Please
I sell these... super fun! Smiles from everyone that gets in one.
l want a jojo siwa spinning chairs
pink ones
two of them is how much
Romi I have so much love and admiration for you! I too can relate to the backlash some individuals in the LGBTQ community have expressed about my fluidity in following my heart not my genitals. <3
thanks for giving us the truth big fan
I always had a soft spot for Romi. It's nice to see that she's such an articulate, thoughtful, intelligent young woman. I dare the Romi haters to listen to this lecture and still insist that she's as terrible as they're convinced she is. Rock on, Romi!
My entire opinion on Romi has changed. She's so endearing and interesting. Idk I really relate to her words.