As one climbs the butte above remote Medora, North Dakota, a curved roof comes slowly into view, distant silhouettes of hikers atop it. Turn a corner and it disappears again, blending back into the ...

The changes on the southern border reshaped Native, Spanish and Mexican communities, telling a story of resilience and ...

A walk through time in the Cheshire market town with landmarks from Saxon icons to Victorian grandeur every step of the way ...

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The Library Company of Philadelphia, created in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, has received a gift of 1,500 volumes about ...

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The original Bayt Al Hikmah – Arabic for “House of Wisdom” – in Baghdad was considered the intellectual heart of the region. It was established in the eighth century and was probably first a private ...

The history of Fox Chase traces back to European settlers who arrived here decades before William Penn arrived.

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Six Georgians have been sentenced to up to seven years' jail in France over the theft of rare editions of Russian literary classics, including by 19th-century luminary Alexander Pushkin, from ...

One by one, valuable works by Russian masters like Pushkin and Gogol were disappearing from libraries across Europe. Now six defendants are being prosecuted.

The trial is the latest case aimed at delivering justice after a series of similar thefts in libraries across Europe, allegedly by an organised network.