Exactly a century ago, in 1913, American librarians began calling the New York Times “the newspaper of record.” They perceived that its circulation, editorial and news-gathering capabilities were unmatched, at least in the USA...
In the summer of 2000, I climbed into my rusty but trusty Mazda and drove to Houston to take in a baseball game. The Astros had just opened a new stadium, and I wanted to check it out. I vaguely recall that the opponent was the San Francisco...
This was my fourth visit to Cheongju, starting in June. The people at the Early Printing Museum there know me and my goal, my quest, my mission, which is quite simply to persuade the National Library of France to return Jikji to Korea as soon...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1797 Exactly 170 years after Coleridge wrote his famous poem about the mighty Khan, my grandfather “Papaw,” my uncle Gary, my aunt Dot...
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