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George R.R. Martin donates first edition of ‘The Hobbit’ to Texas University
George R.R. Martin, whose “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series is the basis for the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, has donated a rare first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937)… Continue reading
VHS Tapes = Cultural Artifacts: Yale acquires collection of 2700 VHS tapes
From the late 1970s through much of the 1980s VHS, which stands for Video Home System, tapes were all the rage.
They were the dominant form of home video entertainment and in many ways revolutionized the movie industry. It… Continue reading
What Darwin Saw: Sketchbooks from the voyage of the HMS Beagle added to Cambridge Digital Library
Charles Darwin considered it to be one of the most formative journeys of his life. His diary and scientific journal of his time aboard the HMS Beagle, now best known as The Voyage of the Beagle, was a bestseller.… Continue reading
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