Historical Highlights #011

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Keeping it simple with today’s historical highlights, here’s a list of articles from around the web that I think you’ll enjoy.

Birds Saved Centuries Old Documents in Their Nests

Unpublished Short Story by Edith Wharton Discovered at Yale University

The Skinny on Bad Parchment

How Anne Frank’s Diary Changed the World

Now Available: The Ultimate Old-Timey Playlist

The World’s Oldest Zoo Is a Modern Attraction With a Storied Past

Mapped: A History Of London Lights, From Candles To Lasers

November 2014: “Remember, Remember the 9th of November” The Fall of the Berlin Wall 25 Years On

Library and Archives asks Harper to Donate Records from His Time in Office

Feel free to share any historical highlights you came across this week!

One thought on “Historical Highlights #011

  1. Beverly Troup (A good friend of Joy Ayer) says:

    Anne Frank’s diary was a very important book for me. After the family was betrayed and the Nazis ransacked their apartment, I understand her diary was thrown on the floor by one of the soldiers -a little girl’s diary…what could be the use of that!!! An aunt found it a few days later, discarded and rejected by an evil man but pure gold to millions around the world .

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