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The Guinness Book of World Records credits Col. Ernest Loftus, a deceased man from Zimbabwe, with the longest streak of daily ...

The books of the Bible were very likely written in the cursive style of writing. The cursive (or "running hand") style joins the letters of a word together as when we write today. In addition ...

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To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

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