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Mobile bookstore in Douai, Picardy, France A well-cooked Stephen King, please!  For lovers of reading Today's photo shows "La Baraque aux livres" (a nod to the emblematic french fries huts of the region), a traveling bookstore that circulates in the streets of Douai.  The owner of this second-hand bookshop located at 7 rue Léon Gambetta in Douai decided in 2016 to become mobile and go directly to meet the locals to create even more proximity with his customers.  La Baraque aux Livres mobile offers second-hand books of all kinds, from art and history books to comics, manga, novels and paperback books, all carefully selected and sorted.  If you go through Douai, try to catch the bookmobile!

Shakespeare's handwriting from the play 'Sir Thomas More,' British Library, London 'I'll call for pen and ink…' '…and write my mind.' It's Shakespeare Week in schools across the UK, so we're field-tripping to the British Library for a peek at the only surviving specimen of what's thought to be playwright William Shakespeare's handwriting (if you don't count legal documents). The scratchy cursive is inked within the script of Anthony Munday's 'Sir Thomas More,' a then-controversial play about a king-defying church leader. In 1603, the censorious royal Office of the Revels brought in Shakespeare among a team of writers to retool the script. But if Shakespeare's task was to tone things down, he may have had other ideas: his three-page addition includes an impassioned speech by the title character to a mob that's rioting over immigration policy. So, to recap: Shakespeare worked as a script doctor for picky...

The Circle Bridge in Copenhagen, Denmark It’s Pi Day! Well, not that mouthwatering and cherry or berries filling pie, it's the day we celebrate the mathematical constant π. This day was chosen since today’s date (March 14) expressed numerically (in US format) matches the number’s first digits, 3.14. Pi represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It can be used to compute the area and circumference of a circle, such as the circles that make up the bridge we're looking at here in Copenhagen. (Who said maths wasn't useful in the real world?) Many towns, schools, and museums mark the day with festivities based around mathematics and, of course, serving pie. We can’t think of a more delicious way to study geometry.

Women's suffragists who walked from New York City to Washington, DC, to join the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade on March 3, 1913 Casting a vote for women's history This historical photo commemorates a group of women who came to Washington, DC, to march alongside thousands in the Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913. Organizers scheduled the protest on the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration to draw maximum publicity to their cause—voting rights for women. But it would be another eight years before American women would finally be guaranteed the vote. That came on August 18, 1920, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, after a century of protest and activism. March is Women's History Month in the US, the UK, and Australia. In the US, this year's theme celebrates the original suffragists who fought for and won voting rights for women. It also honors women today who fight to ensure access t...

It is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the Chinese calendar, and is one of the traditional Chinese festivals.

'Mapping Courage: Honoring W.E.B. Du Bois & Engine #11,' a mural by Willis Humphrey, Philadelphia, PA