The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC. The British Museum is re-cataloguing and studying the 30,000 volume Library.…
One of the great American road trips is the drive down the Overseas Highway in Florida. The Overseas Highway is a 113-mile (181.9 km) highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys. If you happen to be lucky enough to make this drive, somewhere around…
In the early twentieth century, Key West was the largest city in Florida. The Great Depression hit Key West hard and it plummeted from its status as the wealthiest city in the country (per capita) to the poorest. The…
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What visit to Boston would be complete without a visit to the beautiful Central Library of the Boston Public Library? The BPL recently completed renovations on the Johnson Building, which contains the General Library Departments, housing the BPL’s largest circulating…
