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So I started researching a specific prison, the Virginia State Penitentiary, because their archives had just opened.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Homer said that no hospital records had been retained and described how officers had searched local museum archives to see if they could find anything related to the case.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
In fact Wilder wrote several scenes, and the playwright Kirk Lynn, whom Mr. Tapper is essentially here portraying, delved through Wilder’s archives and “completed” the play that follows.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
When I ask Kasparian about being a part of my personal archives, about being part of the historical surfwear archives, she’s “just so happy.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
“A long-lost diary,” he continued, “regarding a doomed voyage undertaken by Lord Fredrick Ashton’s great-grandfather, Admiral Percival Racine Ashton. According to the archives, the book is part of the holdings of the Ashton library.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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Spooked
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