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At This Israeli Library, Manuscripts Tell Unique Stories
These are treasures that Israel doesn't allow anyone to check out of its national library.
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The Beatles' lyrics are going to the British Library
Shakespeare, the Magna Carta and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The august British Library has added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Strawberry Fields Forever, She Said She Said and In My Life.
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Exhibition of ancient manuscripts inaugurated in Srinagar
An exhibition of rare, ancient manuscripts of the Holy Quran was inaugurated in Srinagar by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday.
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Unused Chaplin manuscript found in Italy
The Cinetecta of Bologna film archive in Italy's Bologna city has found a five-page manuscript by Charlie Chaplin.
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Original Einstein manuscripts to be posted online
All 80,000 items in Albert Einstein's archives, including personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers and a poignant postcard to his ailing mother, are going online. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which owns the Einstein collection, is slowly uploading high resolution photographs of scientific papers, letters on social issues including nu...
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Jane Austen, a poor speller and erratic grammarian?
She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor.Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive social comedies such as "Pride and Prejudice."...
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Swiss bank to open vaults holding Kafka works
Manuscripts and drawings of Franz Kafka are to be extracted from the vaults of Swiss bank UBS, amid litigation over ownership rights of the estate, Swiss press reported on Friday.
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At This Israeli Library, Manuscripts Tell Unique Stories
These are treasures that Israel doesn't allow anyone to check out of its national library.
-
The Beatles' lyrics are going to the British Library
Shakespeare, the Magna Carta and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The august British Library has added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Strawberry Fields Forever, She Said She Said and In My Life.
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Exhibition of ancient manuscripts inaugurated in Srinagar
An exhibition of rare, ancient manuscripts of the Holy Quran was inaugurated in Srinagar by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday.
-
Unused Chaplin manuscript found in Italy
The Cinetecta of Bologna film archive in Italy's Bologna city has found a five-page manuscript by Charlie Chaplin.
-
Original Einstein manuscripts to be posted online
All 80,000 items in Albert Einstein's archives, including personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers and a poignant postcard to his ailing mother, are going online. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which owns the Einstein collection, is slowly uploading high resolution photographs of scientific papers, letters on social issues including nu...
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Jane Austen, a poor speller and erratic grammarian?
She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor.Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive social comedies such as "Pride and Prejudice."...
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Swiss bank to open vaults holding Kafka works
Manuscripts and drawings of Franz Kafka are to be extracted from the vaults of Swiss bank UBS, amid litigation over ownership rights of the estate, Swiss press reported on Friday.
