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Exploring Dublin’s Long Room
To view more photos and videos from Dublin’s Trinity College Library, explore the Long Room location page.
Measuring 65 meters (213 feet) in length and housing more than 200,000 of Ireland’s oldest books, the Long Room at Trinity College Library in Dublin stands as a historical and cultural masterpiece.
The library is the largest in Ireland and dates back to the establishment of the university college in 1592. It holds more than 6 million printed works spanning 400 years.
The Long Room was originally built with a flat ceiling, but it was expanded to accommodate upper shelves and a gallery in the 1850s after the library was given legal deposit status in 1801, meaning it receives free copies of all material published in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In addition to the numerous written works housed within the library, the Long Room also boasts marble busts of great philosophers, writers and artists as well as Ireland’s oldest harp.
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He got lost in is own museum.
I was never a Star Wars kid. I was an Indiana Jones kid.
Probably the best scene of the best Indiana Jones movie.
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Few things more frightening than Frank Castle with a smile on his face.
Art by Marco Chechetto.
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The Gemini-Titan 10 spacecraft attempts to rendezvous with the Agena Target Docking Vehicle on July 18, 1966. After docking, astronauts John Young and Michael Collins fired the 16,000 pound thrust engine of the Agena’s primary propulsion system to boost the combined spaceships into an orbit with “an apogee of 413 nautical miles to set a new altitude record for manned spaceflight.” (NASA)
Wonderful photoset.
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Dear God, yes.
This one goes out to all the aspiring writers out there during Children’s Book Week. Don’t forget that you have the power to write your own stories, too! http://powells.us/1qzVd8b
I will always love The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
