Line 31 in the Mesha Stele is Restored, Confirming a Biblical Story
One of the concerns was why would Mesha call the enemy by this term “House of David” when he could simply refer to the proper noun Omri, King of Israel?
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Cuban Botany Manuscript Found After Being Lost for 190 Years
All three volumes of Specimens of the Plants & Fruits of the Island of Cuba by Mrs. A.K. Wollstonecraft were recently found after being deemed lost for 190 years.
Helvetica Now: Refreshed for the Modern Age
Since this sans-serif typeface was developed in 1957 by Swiss designer Max Miedinger, Helvetica has grown in popularity, appearing everywhere from signage in the New York City Subway system to advertising for Toyota, American Airlines and Panasonic.
Reading and Education Instead of Traditional Ways of Punishment for Juvenile Offenders
In September 2016, the Ashburn Colored school, a historic building that had been used by black children during the era of segregation in Virginia, was hatefully vandalized by five teenagers. The young would-be delinquents were sentenced with reading in the hopes to change the way the American criminal justice system treats juvenile delinquent hate crimes.
Attention All Printers: Your Jobs Do Not Exist (At Least Not in the US)
Earlier this year the Department of Labor and Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that “printer”, "screen printer", as well as “printer support” are no longer official jobs. The printing industries have become too small to justify being counted as a separate category in the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly report on U.S payrolls.
One Book One Bronx: One Stereotype at a Time
The “One Book One Bronx” club, featuring an image of senior citizens reading and discussing a classic, looks less like the traditional image of a book club and more like a community's town hall meeting.
Finland and the Libraries of Eden
Libraries in Finland are not designed to be sullen book repositories that collect dust in an increasingly digital age, rather they are intended as vibrant spaces where much more can be borrowed than a stack of books.
1,200-Year-Old Bible Taken in Custody by Turkish Police
Updated to add a link to the National Library of Israel blog post about fake antiquities.
Bookworm’s Feast: 15 Independent Bookstores Opened in 2018 in the UK
Recent data from the Bookseller Association reveals that after 20 years of decline, the number of independent bookstores is on the rise again.
Celebrity Patrons Save “House of Horrors” Bookstore
Dark Delicacies, a horror bookstore in Burbank California, was saved from closure largely due to the endorsements of celebrity patrons such as sci-fi director Guillermo del Toro, and horror novelists Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow.
