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The book was banned by the Portuguese government without any clear reason. According to the author, one possible reason was because he was from the "current of thought what claims that the discovery of Brazil happened 'by random'" or by the fact he "have registered the history of the 1600 years cut to the Arabian navy by Vasco da Gama". [207]
The Government Printing Office was created by congressional joint resolution (12 Stat. 117) on June 23, 1860.It began operations March 4, 1861, with 350 employees and reached a peak employment of 8,500 in 1972. [1]
Older editions of the Plum Book are held by any federal depository library. [1] The Government Printing Office (now the United States Government Publishing Office) began to make the Plum Book available as an app for the first time in December 2012. [2] The 2020 edition was published on December 1, 2020. [3]
In August 1814, British forces occupied Washington and, in retaliation for American acts in Canada, burned several government buildings, including the Library of Congress. Most of its 3,000 volumes were destroyed. [11] These volumes were held in the Senate wing of the Capitol; one surviving volume was a government account book from 1810.
[6] The committee report on the bill that became the Act of 1909 explains that the savings clause was inserted "for the reason that the Government often desires to make use in its publications of copyrighted material, with the consent of the owner of the copyright, and it has been regarded heretofore as necessary to pass a special act every ...
OpenTheBooks.com is an American nonprofit organization based in the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge, Illinois.It describes itself as a transparency group devoted to posting online all the disclosed spending of every level of government across the United States. [1]