While Dionysius may have been the first recorded pirate, the most famous pirates lived during the 17th and 18th centuries, ...

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Nature Into Art” at the Toledo Museum of Art is the first major monographic exhibition ever devoted to Ruysch.

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South Korean shipowner Sinokor Merchant Marine has firmed up an KRW 834.8bn ($611.1m) order for a quartet of scrubber-fitted container ship newbuildings at two HD Hyundai Group shipyards.

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Richard de Bury, an English bibliophile who knew the Sorbonne collection well, warned librarians to keep students away from ...

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