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LOS ANGELES—Scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute have developed a new chemical analysis technique that could revolutionize the authentication of historic photographs. In the past, photographs have typically been identified through visual or microscopic inspection, a method that relies on ...

Ben Franklin’s Wit & Wisdom is a delightful little volume published c1960 by the Peter Pauper Press of Mount Vernon, New York. The introduction explains that the “wise sayings which follow come from many different numbers of Ben Franklin’s Poor ...

HAVANA – Cuba on Monday began accepting requests for electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway’s home on the island, including the unpublished epilogue of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and coded messages the author sent when ...

North Jersey’s homegrown poet Sunday, December 14, 2008 Last updated: Sunday December 14, 2008, 4:14 PM BY MIKE KERWICK NorthJersey.com STAFF WRITER “Remember me, Ladies, the silent one? I have found my voice and my rage will blow your home ...

An individual project of Jeremy M. Norman, author of From Gutenberg to the Internet, From Cave Paintings to the Internet: An Annotated Interactive Timeline on the History of Information and Media is an interactive version of my timeline on the ...