Tag Archives: Wikimedia Commons

Todd Bol built the first Little Free Library in 2009 as a small tribute to his mother

The network had expanded across all 50 US states, 128 countries and all seven continents [...]

Food Recovery Network began in 2011 after University of Maryland: The wider industry impact

The University of Maryland chapter had recovered 30,000 meals for agencies in the Washington, DC, [...]

In 2025, a Texas woman held the ticket for an $83.5 million lottery victory but the state delayed

An Ohio lottery vending machine inside Walmart alongside an image of a lottery ticket. Credits [...]

Over a hundred years since the time when Mikulec left his Croatian: The wider industry impact

Joseph Mikulec was born in Croatia in 1878 and broke away from a life of [...]

This former Portland school now has a hotel, brewery, movie theater and soaking pool

McMenamins lists 57 guest rooms at the Kennedy School, with some occupying former classrooms, while [...]

A $12,055 library bill was waived after a New Hampshire man returned an 1894 magazine that had been

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine / Concord Public Library | Wikimedia Commons

A London air-raid shelter built for wartime protection now grows: The wider industry impact

Growing trays inside the former Clapham Common deep-level shelter | Wikimedia Commons

In 1972, a wheelchair-using California conservationist helped protect the Santa Monica Mountains

California’s Santa Monica Mountains | Wikimedia Commons

Douglas was blind and dealing with health problems by the 1990s, but Friends of the Everglades

Douglas had spent much of her public life arguing that the Everglades was a system [...]

A Pennsylvania flea-market buyer paid $4 for a framed painting: The wider industry impact

Dunlap Broadside [Declaration of Independence]. This is the first printed version of the Declaration of [...]