Mass. city was home to abolitionist who celebrated his birthday on Valentine's Day
A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...
Mailbag: Nothing ‘alluring’ about proposed library plaque
Instead of focusing on the merits honoring the officials who helped build the library in conformance with other milestones, ...
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The New Faces of Rare Book Collecting: Young Adults Redefine What It Means To Be A Rare Book Collector
Rare book collecting, a hobby historically maintained by eccentric billionaires and wealthy universities, is now taking on ...
Know Your City: In a new audio tour, Bengaluru author Zac O’Yeah explores some literary landmarks
Zac O'Yeah wishes his audio tour of Bengaluru's literary heritage would nudge writers in other cities to come up with similar ...
‘Can’t the government see how important it is to provide home care and free up beds?’
With NHS hospitals overcrowded, why isn't the government expanding home care services instead of closing facilities that ...
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Floating Stanista (Libray of Selected Soviet Literature)
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Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition
Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...
Amit Dutta, the little-known most famous Indian auteur: ‘The kind of films I make should be sought out, not thrust upon people’
In this final instalment of a two-part interview, the unparalleled Amit Dutta talks about his practice & influences, David ...
Please touch: Rare, unusual and artistic books are making Miami a center of print culture
How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...
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Meet Sally Gearhart, the Most Famous Bay Area LGBTQ Activist You've Never Heard Of
Sally Gearhart was an influential activist who shaped LGBTQ history and the women’s movement in the Bay Area. So why don’t ...
Rebecca Wisocky: The Funniest ‘Ghosts’ Star Tells Us All
Before she played Hetty Woodstone on the CBS hit “Ghosts,” Rebecca Wisocky was a cleaner at a haunted NYC museum. So we went there to chat with her.