We’d Survive About 4 Years Without Them

World Bee Day

Source: Library of Congress, beekeeper Donald Gill in Cache County, Utah, recipient of a rehabilitation loan from the Farm Security Administration, 1940.

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Source: HiBid/ Vandertook Auction Co. LLC (Hickman, NE)

Source: Etta’s Etceteras, May 2026.

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The Song with 19 Words

2026 National Recording Registry Inductees

Puerto Rican born singer and guitarist Jose Feliciano pictured playing an acoustic guitar in 1969. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Source: HiBid/ Neils Online Auctions (Holly, MI)

Source: Still photo (“California Dreamin'” scene) from Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Pictured L to R: Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.

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‘The Pocket Guide to Pantsing’

Fantasy Writing Virtual Conference May 29-30

Source: Britannica, brothers Wilhelm (l) and Jacob Grimm, oil portrait by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann in the National-Galerie, Berlin, Germany. In 1812, they published “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.”

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Source: HiBid/ Twin Tier Auctions (Asaph, PA)

Source: HiBid/ Twin Tier Auctions (Asaph, PA)

Source: HiBid/ Great Lakes Asset Liquidation LLC (Carleton, MI)

Source: HiBid/ Great Lakes Asset Liquidation LLC (Carleton, MI)

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‘….And Beer on Sunday!’

Vintage Sailing Stuff

Source: Library of Congress, “Sailing, Cedar Lake, Indiana” postcard with Aug. 28, 1950 postmark. Curt Teich/ Wahlberg Camera Shop.

Back of above postcard.

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Source: HiBid/ Solic Auctions (Canfield, OH)

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