ALEXANDRIA — The proposed new Douglas County Library is inching forward as a group of about 40 people took part in a ...

They’re burning the modern Library of Alexandria. That’s one way to describe the recent ruling of the Second Circuit US Court ...

The Catherine Project, a free online higher learning initiative, continues to grow as it feeds “an immense hunger” for ...

Among the weathered and once-cracked headstones in Michigan’s historic Brighton Village Cemetery, the dual grave markers for Lt. Col. John Gilluly stand out. It was a late summer day when I was drawn ...

Ptolemy, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 2nd century CE ... Around 1300, scholars in Europe revisited this thinking and began reproducing manuscripts of Ptolemy’s text and maps. In 1406, his ...

Al Aanenson has been working to keep Rock County electrified for over 50 years, wiring everything from grain bins on farms to ...

It would have made the location of a text very ... are the more important: 1. The Codex Vaticanus, dating from the first half of the fourth century and preserved in the Vatican Library.

As civilization progressed, the Library of Alexandria was founded in Egypt ... These community events and activities make libraries an important center for social interaction and lifelong learning.

In this way, during the Renaissance, the dream ideal of the Royal Library of Alexandria was united with a new public ... The books and the readings became important instruments for the salvation of ...

The ancient Library of Alexandria was—as is known—burned, depriving the world of its wealth of knowledge. But who actually ...