#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of George Stephenson (1781) - British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways".
Birth Anniversary of Bertha von Suttner (1843) - second female #Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903) and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Today is International #ArchivesDay.
Archivist husband just delivered one of his trademark unrelatable takes on the news of the day. Upon showing him the picture of government documents piled up in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom:
[Cringes visibly] "Why are they using such low-quality boxes?"
Anyway, happy world #archivesday
Free event in #Halifax for #ArchivesDay:
NFB & Canadian Museum of Immigration screening "Unarchived," a film dealing with communities left out of traditional archives. 1400 at Pier 21.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/unarchived-tickets-643701467417
