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While the library at New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology — also called FIT — has many books on fashion, the oldest tome in its collection is no Parisian catalogue, but rather a Jerusalem one: It’s a Renaissance-era book on the priestly garments worn in the Holy Temple in Ancient Israel, written by Johanne…
As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique “cosmology” printed in 1507 that serves as America’s birth certificate. The black-and-white map created by Martin Waldseemuller, a French cleric, was the first time the name America had appeared on any map. Waldseemuller…
רחל גראָס טענהט, אַז דאָס באַזוכן היסטאָרישע שילן, פֿאָרשן די משפּחה־געשיכטע און עסן אין ייִדישע רעסטאָראַנען האָבן אַ רעליגיעזן באַטײַט
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