Juneteenth is an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. The name is a portmanteau[1] of June Nineteenth, in reference to June 19, 1865 when General Order ... More
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Juneteenth
Around the World (and then Some)
May 5 is celebrated around the world[1] as the birthday of Nellie Bly (née Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – Jan. 27, 1922), the most famous person to come from Pennsylvania... More
EIDR Celebrates Milestones, Sets 2021 Roadmap
The pandemic may have shut down Hollywood productions and pushed new theatrical releases back a year and more, but it didn’t slow down EIDR and its advancements one bit. At th... More
A List to Remember
On April 14, 1912 at 11:40 p.m., the RMS Titanic[1] famously hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic while on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. An estimate... More
EIDR’s Welch, Kroon Nominated for DEG Technology, Operations Awards
EIDR executive director Kip Welch and Richard Kroon, technical operations director, have been nominated in separate categories of the inaugural Technology & Operations Awards ... More
An Evening with John Ford
John Ford and I share two things in common: our birthdays (February 1 – he in 1894, me some years later) and poor eyesight (both of us with glasses, though he stepped it up a not... More
An EIDR 2.5 Statistical Wrap After Launch
The April 25 launch of the latest significant stack improvement to EIDR, EIDR 2.5, is in the books, and with it comes both reliability and resilience for both registry and de-dupli... More