Library Admits Damage to 18th-Century Diary
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The British Library has admitted that a historic diary was damaged while in its care, but refused to confirm reports that the manuscript, which recorded preparations for the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, had been left in the trunk of a car.
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A fire destroyed a 610-year-old landmark that was considered the top national treasure, officials said Monday. Police said the cause of the blaze was unclear but officials said arson was suspected.
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WEIMAR, Germany As many as 30,000 priceless books may have been destroyed by a fire that swept through an historic library in this eastern German city, authorities said Friday.
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It's a historian's equivalent of stumbling across a long-lost sonata - a fingerprint on an 18th-century letter that experts say may have been left by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father.
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The memoirs of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his unpublished will go under the hammer in Paris.
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A fire that ripped through one of Germany's most precious historical libraries destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of irreplaceable books, although about 6,000 works, including a 1543 Martin Luther Bible, ...
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By Paul James  A fire that ravaged an historic school building has been confirmed by detectives as an arson attack.
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Letter: Reporter was basically receiving stolen property.
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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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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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More than 1 million pages of historical government documents &#151; a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol &#151; have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old.
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A mysterious carved code at a manor house, which has defied understanding for hundreds of years, is thought to be a cryptic message from an 18th century Christian sect, experts said.
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Saad Eskanderâs Web diary details the daily hurdles of keeping Iraqâs central library open, preserving the surviving archives and books and, oh yes, staying alive.
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A previously unknown work by Johann Sebastian Bach has turned up in a crate of 18th-century birthday cards removed from a German library shortly before it was devastated by fire last year, researchers said Wednesday.
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A website offering e-copies of the sixth Harry Potter book is closed after an investigation by the BBC News website.
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In a 1788 diary, the English novelist Fanny Burney wrote of her misery while serving as lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III.
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Some 40,000 volumes damaged in a fire at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, September 2 have been transported to the Book Preservation Center in Leipzig for deep-freezing and eventual ...