The rise and fall of the Great Library of Alexandria ... The famous library in Egypt flourished for six centuries and was the cultural and...
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As I write this, the first two of what I expect will be three theatrically morose sighs have just issued from my lips; they're all quite...
173 months ago

Founded in 2002, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is the spiritual successor to the Great Library of ancient times, an edifice capable of holding...
74 months ago

Most famous library of classical antiquity. It was part of the Alexandrian Museum, a research institute at Alexandria, Egypt.
38 months ago

The Alexandria Library has earned the Gold Standard of Excellence from the Virginia Public Library Directors Association.
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The Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of the card catalog, in this excerpt from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures.
91 months ago

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria. “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to...
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“On Aug. 21, 1939, William Evans, Otto Tucker — who was Sam's brother — Edward Gaddis, Morris Murray and Clarence Strange, individually go into...
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1) The ancient library of Alexandria was founded by Demetrius of Phaleon, an Athenian politician who fell from power and fled to Egypt.
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A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open...
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