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Western County Histories including the scarce Yolo county history from 1879, early California…
Muhammad Ali's draft card which was issued the day the Louisville Kentucky Draft Board ordered him…
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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will open a new exhibition this fall exploring Eric Carle’s career through the perspective of food. Running September 20 through August 23, 2026, Cooking with Eric Carle will feature more than 50 works dating between 1965 and 2019.
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A group of researchers led by researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Nottingham has launched an AI model that can contextualise ancient inscriptions. The research, published in the journal Nature, explains how the AI model called Aeneas could greatly reduce the workload of…
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Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum Miriam Margolyes has officially opened its new exhibition Showtime! revealing the author's love of performing and two centuries of productions of his stories for theatre, film, television, radio and podcast.The co-writer and solo star of Dickens’ Women in…
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Leading the Cecil B. DeMille section of Heritage Auctions' Hollywood/Entertainment sales was led by the DeMille-commissioned granite Ten Commandment tablets which went for $325,000.
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The Morgan Library & Museum will present Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life later this year devoted to the importance of the Psalms in medieval art, prayer, and everyday life. 
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Durham Cathedral has opened its landmark summer exhibition Magna Carta and the North with a powerful new light-based artwork The Words That Bind Us taking centre stage in the Cathedral’s Nave. 
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Heritage Auctions’ July 24–25 Movie Posters auction features a range of Universal's horror posters plus the work of Charlie Chaplin and Steven Spielberg.Highlights include glass slides for Dracula and Frankenstein, a six sheet poster for 1940’s The Mummy’s Hand, a title lobby card for the 1935…
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A newly discovered raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian lizard from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has been named for the goblin prince from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, 'Bolg amondol' 
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A rare signed photograph tied to Marilyn Monroe’s 1954 visit to the San Francisco Federal Building has sold for $21,655 at RR Auction.Two weeks after marrying baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Monroe arrived at the Federal Building on January 29, 1954, to secure a passport for their upcoming honeymoon…
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The Fine Literature, Mysteries & Sci-fi, Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture auction at PBA Galleries on July 17 features a section dedicated to the works of Charles Bukowski, including original art, limited editions, manuscripts and letters.