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They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The papyri, containing a number of Greek philosophical texts, come from the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. [2] However, reading the scrolls is extremely difficult, and can risk destroying them.
The William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library of 25th U.S. president William McKinley.The library, which is located at the foot of the McKinley National Memorial, is owned and operated by the Stark County Historical Society, and located in Canton, Ohio, where McKinley built his career as lawyer, prosecuting attorney, congressman, governor and president.
Faced with offensive graffiti and insulting authorless bills (famosi) throughout the city, [17] he ordered the Library of Antioch to be burned down. [c] [17] [18] Jovian left Antioch in November 363, [d] making his way back to Constantinople. [17] By December 363 Jovian was at Ancyra proclaiming his infant son, Varronianus, consul. [20]
Sometimes confused with the Library of Antioch, a statement in the works of John of Antioch (7th century) is the earliest to describe the destruction of a separate building, a temple from the period of Hadrian turned into a library by Julian the Apostate, by the emperor Jovian.
With the death of Muhammad in 632 AD, the Muslim world began a period of rapid expansion. Under the rule of the first caliphs, the Rashidun, Muslim armies began assaulting the borders of both Sassanid Persia and the Byzantine Empire. [1]
The Codex Vaticanus (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 1 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament and the majority of the Greek New Testament.
The Human Library t-shirt. The organization began in Copenhagen in 2000 when the first Human Library event was held at Roskilde Festival. [9] The event was run by Ronni and Dany Abergel, [9] Asma Mouna, and Christoffer Erichsen, then working at the Danish Youth NGO Stop Volden (which translates to Stop the Violence), inspired by the American Stop the Violence Movement.
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers on astronomy and physics, operated for NASA by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. ADS maintains three bibliographic collections containing over 15 million records, including all arXiv e-prints. [ 1 ]
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