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• Rochester, NY writes the Book on Literary Tourism

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 107
  bRush Rhees Rare Books Library In 2007 Rochester was ranked the sixth ‘most livable city’ in the U.S. according to the 25th edition of the Places Rated Almanac. The same year it received top ranking for overall quality of life among U.S. metro areas with populations of more than one million and in 2010 Forbes [...]
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• Got a thing for Photography or the Movies?

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 107
    The Pencil of Nature, published in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs" …then the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House in Rochester is a place you should visit. It contains an impressive selection of books and rare ...
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• More Istanbul shopping and dining secrets from Daily Secret

  
  Gadling — Authority: 599
  Filed under: Blogs , Asia , Europe , Turkey , Internet Tools , Luxury Travel Last week, Gadling included Istanbul in our picks for 2012 luxury travel , and introduced you to Daily Secret , a web-based "guide service" offering insider intel to 12 cities, including Istanbul . We got so many more great ...
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• Fellowship Program for Rare Books Scholars

  
  Toonari Post - A News Mash Up! — Authority: 440
  Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, and the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Libraries announced the founding of a three year fellowship program to enable international rare books scholars to study 16th -18th century scientific scholarship ...
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• Emblem Books, or, What's Going On in this Engraving?

  
  NYPL Blogs — Authority: 420
  This is one of over a hundred such puzzling images you can find in Symbolorvm & emblematvm ex animalibvs qvadrupedibvs desvmtorvm centvria altera , a 1595 book printed in Nuremberg, Germany. Emblem books like this one were common in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, and a typical example of this genre ...
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• Center for Jewish History Will Build Rare Book Room with Gift Money

  
  Toonari Post - A News Mash Up! — Authority: 440
  The Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce a $2.5 million gift from The David Berg Foundation to establish The David Berg Rare Book Room.  This contribution will enable the Center and its partners to realize their longstanding goal of creating a public space that showcases and preserves some of the most ...
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• Fun Stop Motion Video Promotes Book Store

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 121
  I like big books, and I cannot lie. Yep, I’m a self-admitted reader. Granted, I don’t zip through books like a friend of mine, who I swear is a speed reader, but I plow through them at my own pace. Like the bookshelves built into a staircase , I’ve got piles of books I’ve purchased just waiting for me to ...
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• Government committed to promote Sanskrit: PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said his government was committed to promote Sanskrit, a “misunderstood language”, which is “the spirit of India”.“Sanskrit is the spirit of India. The government is committed to the promotion and development of Sanskrit,” Manmohan Singh said, ...
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