{"id":1562,"date":"2013-04-11T19:20:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-04-11T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:20:20","slug":"the-mecca-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/04\/11\/the-mecca-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"The MECCA Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>check out the Engineering Library&#8217;s MECCA exhibit an Engineering celebration very popular from the 1920-1970 celebrated with parades, long beard contests, finding and kissing the Blarney stone by upper classman. \u00a0The Blarney stone imported from Ireland was lost for 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Some pictures from parades and events from political statements having to do with the war and thoughts about science with captions like &#8220;Science?&#8211;HELL NO! Mars is wet.&#8221;\u00a0 To floates that were meant to be fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0973a_Frontjpg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-202\" alt=\"ea0973a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0973a_Frontjpg1-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0982a_Frontjpg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-203\" alt=\"ea0982a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0982a_Frontjpg1-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0995a_Frontjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-204\" alt=\"ea0995a_Frontjpg\" 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src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1049a_Frontjpg-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1056a_Frontjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-208\" alt=\"ea1056a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1056a_Frontjpg-184x300.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1064a_Frontjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-209\" alt=\"ea1064a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1064a_Frontjpg-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1065a_Frontjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-210\" alt=\"ea1065a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1065a_Frontjpg-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1088a_Frontjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-211\" alt=\"ea1088a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1088a_Frontjpg-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1097a_Frontjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-212\" alt=\"ea1097a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea1097a_Frontjpg-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 years and had to be replaced by a facsimile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>check out the Engineering Library&rsquo;s MECCA exhibit an Engineering celebration very popular from the 1920-1970 celebrated 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