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Real Simple on MSNA Book Blind Date Could Rekindle Your Love of ReadingEnter the book blind date, which is the perfect opportunity to add a little adventure to your reading list, and maybe even ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNSome ‘Hairy’ Medieval Books Were Covered in Sealskin, and Researchers Don’t Know Exactly WhyHistorians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...
The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...
The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.
"It was always my dream to open a bookstore that amplified Black stories, and that's what I was able to do," said Verlean ...
Don’t judge a book by its cover” was the featured message of Blind Date with a Book as books wrapped in brown paper, with a ...
A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.
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GB News on MSNArchaeology breakthrough as scientists uncover what animal skin was used to bound medieval 'hairy books'Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...
Injuries make it difficult to assess the Charlotte Hornets' progress. Tre Mann (back), Brandon Miller (wrist) and Grant ...
Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...
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The World from PRX on MSNNew cookbook highlights Nigerian homecookingFood anthropologist and Nigerian native Ozoz Sokoh is out with a cookbook that's being hailed as the first comprehensive ...
A State Department official said in a two-page court filing that the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant ...
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