A periodic table showing where the discoveries of the ... Parker College‘s history of the elements. In the mid-17th century the search for the myriad elements we know today really got going ...

Since the late 18th century, small colonies of bats have guarded the books in the Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra in central Portugal. The library contains 60,000 books that are all ...

Richard the Lionheart (Richard I) was the king of England at the end of the 12th century. He was also a famous library thief. At the time, books and documents were extremely important, especially ...

Chicago’s Newberry Library is crowdsourcing translations for three 17th-century manuscripts of spells, charms and magic. Handwritten in archaic Latin and English, the three texts, “The Book of ...

One of the libraries is here in Louisville, and it holds more stories than books on its shelves. For over a century, Western Library held its place in local and national history. When Albert Meyzeek ...