With one copy of each book carted to safety, no knowledge was lost when their ... and the books themselves, which included the Quran and the Hebrew Bible, embodied his beliefs in freedom of ...

The Jews divided their sacred books into sections. The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates from the thirteenth century and is the work of Stephen Langton, professor at the ...

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Along with the lives lost, something else went down with the Titanic: An illusion of orderliness, a faith in technological progress, a yearning for the future that, as Europe drifted toward full ...

For years, ever since the footage appeared in TV documentaries and online, the identity and fate of the so-called 'Lost German Girl' has proved captivating. Dressed in a nondescript uniform and ...

The books of the Bible were very likely written in the cursive style of writing. The cursive (or "running hand") style joins the letters of a word together as when we write today. In addition ...