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But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with the “superpower” of reading cursive to transcribe some 2 million pages of handwritten Revolutionary War-era documents. So far, more than ...

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U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...