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

To compensate for the loss of the great library, the city of Alexandria did construct a new one: the $220 million Bibliotheca Alexandrina, with construction starting in 1995 and stretching until ...

Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies ...

Tucker and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In," running through Aug ... "He is really one of the most brilliant minds that I know, a man of great integrity. He is always on the firing line ...

One of the first sit-ins happened at the Alexandria library 85 years ago, in August of 1939. The sit-in happened at the present-day Barrett Branch Library after a Black would-be library patron was ...

It is interesting in this connection to remember that the most famous museum of ancient times, the Museum of Alexandria, was, so the Encyclopaedia Britannica says, a great library and home for ...

Library Feasts of the Church Great Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha Pentecostarion Sunday ... Commemoration of The Great and Holy Feast of Pascha Arius was a protopresbyter of the Church of Alexandria, and ...

It shares a lot of the same ingredients as the Civ games: economy and politics, as well as the building of wonders such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Great Library of Alexandria.

He compared the worst-case scenario to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. “Imagine in the future, a dataset from Google is excluding everything on slavery, on the Vietnam War, the Iraq ...

Nestled in the Thousand Islands, Frederick Exley, author of cult classic “A Fan’s Notes,” finds a town that understands the ...