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Sheet Music of the Week: World Mosquito Day Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following is a guest post by Stephanie A. Hall, American Folklife Center. World Mosquito Day, August 20th,  commemorates the day in 1897  when Dr. Ronald Ross of Great Britain discovered that female mosquitoes transmit malaria. Many items in the Music Division of the Library of Congress and other performing arts materials throughout the Library …