Rare Books Feared Lost in German Fire
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Thousands of irreplaceable books were feared lost or damaged in a fire at one of Germany's most precious libraries, though some 6,000 historical works &#151; including a 1534 Martin Luther Bible &#151; were saved by a chain of people who spirited them away from the flames, officials said Friday.
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Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York's archives, a state official said Saturday.
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The oldest known manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach &#151; handwritten copies of works by two other composers &#151; have been discovered in a library that was heavily damaged in a fire two years ago, researchers said Thursday.
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One of Germany's most precious libraries has been severely damaged by a fire in Weimar, the capital of German classical culture.
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WEIMAR, Germany -- German officials are trying to determine exactly what was lost in a blaze at a library housing some the country&#39;s most prized books.
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Personal letters from people such as Napoleon and John Donne are being sold at auction.
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Germany's National Library is now fully licensed to duplicate copy protected electronic books and other digital media such as CDs and CD-ROMs. The object and scope of the agreement seems pretty limited, anyway.
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A new history book causes controversy in Switzerland because of its treatment of the Swiss role in WWII.
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The Art Loss Register, a London database of 180,000 missing art works, is on the trail of two Picassos stolen in Paris last week. By the Associated Press.
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The restoration of Germany's famed Anna Amalia Library, a UNESCO World Heritage List site gutted by fire three years ago, has been completed, and the building will reopen next week, officials said Thursday.
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Up to 30,000 irreplaceable books were destroyed in a fire on Thursday night at one of Germany&#39;s most historic libraries, in the eastern city of Weimar, officials said on Friday.
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Hundreds of World War II crash sites still dot the European landscape, but finding them isn't as easy as one may think.
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They were priceless artifacts, and the Kabul Museum curators wrapped them carefully, some of them in pink toilet paper, others in newspaper, and put them in metal boxes. Then government people, eight to 10 of them, signed pieces of paper that were glued to the locks. No box would be opened unless all the signers were there.
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Rare works by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope are to be sold at auction.
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A fire that hit a historic German library earlier this month destroyed twice as many books as previously thought, with some 50,000 works suffering irreparable fire damage, officials said Tuesday.
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Reporter Ahmad Taufik caught a break as he looked for a follow-up story after a fire devoured a centuries-old garment market in the heart of town last year. A city official had told him anonymously that plans to renovate the market were submitted by a powerful businessman three months before the fire.
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A collection of books, photos and letters relating to Oscar Wilde are being sold at auction in London.