A comma should be after each separate things you are listing. The answer is:
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The
Library of Congress is home to the world's most extensive comic-book
collection, oldest original newspaper collection, and most abundant
collection of cartographic items.</span>
It should take a boat about 23 days give or take a day and weather conditions to travel that distance
The word dreaming in the sentence, “The children went to
sleep dreaming of the party“ is a participle.
To add, <span>a </span>participle<span> <span>is a form of a verb that is used in a sentence
to modify a noun, noun phrase, verb, or verb phrase, and plays a role similar
to an adjective or adverb.</span></span>