Pearl Buck classic manuscript recovered after 40 years
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A long-lost manuscript of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck has been recovered, federal officials said on Wednesday.
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The British Library raises Â£635,000 to save a rare 15th Century manuscript from being exported to Germany.
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A three-week scramble to find two handwritten manuscripts by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges worth nearly $1 million ended on Monday when they were discovered in the bookstore that had reported them missing.
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MOSCOW - A massive Russian church bell that hung for decades at Harvard was returned to a Moscow monastery yesterday, nearly 80 years after it and 17 others were rescued from Stalin's religious purges by a US industrialist.
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The tomes provide a rare glimpse into a precolonial African history of intellectual endeavor and will be preserved thanks to an $8 million donation from South Africa.
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By Marla Jo Fisher, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Feb. 1--IRVINE -- It's been 557 years since Johann Gutenberg invented the  printing press, opening to all a world of communication that formerly belonged  to only a privileged few.
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Researchers have reconstructed a long string of genetic code for what they believe is the common ancestor of placental mammals - a shrewlike creature that lived in Asia more than 75 million years ago.
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A woman who was sectioned for 70 years after being wrongly accused of theft is reunited with her family.
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Previously unseen papers belonging to Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go on display.
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Little Rock, Ark., police recovered a suitcase filled with George Harrison photographs that had been stolen from the ex-Beatle&#39;s sister.
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Below the deck of his shrimp boat, W.G. Smith recounts the story of his big catch more than 40 years ago.
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic  -- Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible - a medieval manuscript said to have been written 800 years ago with the devil's help - has returned to Prague after an absence of 359 years. The priceless piece, considered the biggest medieval book, was taken from the Prague Castle by Swedish troops at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. It is in Prague on loan from Sweden's Royal Library in Stockholm. It was put on display under high security at the Czech National Library.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter at a Nashville thrift shop is being valued by experts at about 100,000 times the $2.48 purchase price.
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Authorities are investigating the theft of a rare 18th century manuscript about Rome's politically powerful Orsini family from an exhibit case at a University of California, Los Angeles library.
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A 16-billion-pixel image of the famous painting goes online after a challenging digitization process.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- A long-lost briefcase full of notes and lyrics that were intended for the 1981 U2 album &quot;October&quot; has been returned, 23 years after it was stolen at a Portland concert.
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A rare plant which was believed to be extinct in the UK is rediscovered in a Herefordshire orchard.