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6:15 PM EST
Live! at the Library: Café Concert with Seán Heely
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/event-411276/live-at-the-library-cafe-concert-with-sean-heely/2023-12-21/

6:30 PM EST
Live! at the Library: "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
Library of Congress 
https://www.loc.gov/item/event-411270/live-at-the-library-the-nightmare-before-christmas/2023-12-21/

6:30 PM EST
Washington Today Podcast
Catch up on the biggest stories of the day from Washington with interviews and analysis from leading journalists. Posted weekdays at 6:30 pm ET. F
https://www.c-span.org/podcasts/subpage/?series=washingtonToday

Thursday
C-SPAN's The Weekly
Connecting today's political discourse with the past 40 years of politics. Using audio taken from C-SPAN's vast Video Library, each episode focuses on a theme tied to current events providing a unique perspective on today's news.
https://www.c-span.org/podcasts/subpage/?series=theWeekly

7:25 PM EST
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Magic Flute — Holiday Presentation
The Metropolitan Opera Free Live Audio Streams
https://www.metopera.org/season/2023-24-season/the-magic-flute/
https://www.metopera.org/season/radio/free-live-audio-streams/

7:30 PM EST
Commodores, Featuring, trumpeter Sean Jones, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University - Chicago, Illinois
U.S. Navy Band
https://www.navyband.navy.mil/events
https://www.navyband.navy.mil/events/2023-dec-21-commodores-mccormick-place-west

7:30 PM EST
White Christmas (Paramount, 1954)
Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater 
https://www.loc.gov/item/event-411242/white-christmas-paramount-1954/2023-12-21/

8:00 PM EST
Artificial Intelligence Investment and Implementation
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), chair of the House Committee on U.S.-China Competition, and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall joined other government officials and tech industry leaders for a discussion on the investment and implementation of artificial intelligence during the 10th annual Reagan National Defense Forum at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Several topics were addressed, including the benefits AI applications offer the military, the importance of private-public partnerships in AI development, and budget needs for research and investment. They also addressed competition from adversaries, such as China, and the need to work alongside allies and partners to facilitate faster AI innovation and implementation. 
https://www.c-span.org/video/?532172-6/artificial-intelligence-investment-implementation

9:00 PM EST
Books That Shaped America: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
In part four of Books that Shaped America, historian, author, and Howard University professor Edna Greene Medford explored the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the first autobiography of abolitionist Frederick Douglass after his escape from slavery, published in 1845.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?529912-1/books-shaped-america-narrative-life-frederick-douglass

10:27 PM EST
Winter Solstice
The first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere
Beginning tomorrow night at 10:27 PM EST, the days start getting longer (for those of us in the northern hemisphere).
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https://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-winter-winter-solstice

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December 22, 2023
7:45 AM EST
Coverage of the Robotic Release of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus-19 Cargo Craft
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/nasa-tv-schedule-for-web-week-of-12-18-2023-rev-b.pdf
https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/coverage-of-the-robotic-release-of-the-northrop-grumman-cygnus-19-cargo-craft/
https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/
https://youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
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