The number of pages it would take to print the Internet = 305.5 billion
Source: If you could print out the whole Internet, how many pages would it be? – The Washington Post
May Book Display 2015
Mexican War Declared – May 1846
May’s Book Display, come check out some of the history concerning this struggle between two nations and the cost of that struggle for the lands of the SouthWest.
State of the News Media 2015
Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center’s analysis of comScore data.
State of the News Media 2015 | Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project.
April 30, 1859: A Tale of Two Cities is Published
April 30, 1859, Charles Dickens’s A Tale Of Two Cities is first published, the best of times ensue.
Library of Congress is ‘Born’ on April 24, 1800
Today, the Library of Congress celebrates its birthday. On April 24, 1800, President John Adams approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of “such books as may be necessary for the use of congress.