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The parchment, produced in America in the 1780s, seems to trace back to the Richmond family archives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Both welcomed the approach by the Diocese of Carlisle, which previously apologised for Judith's treatment at St Monica's and opened its archives for investigation.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
So I started researching a specific prison, the Virginia State Penitentiary, because their archives had just opened.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Dudamel says his favorite place in New York so far is the orchestra’s archives.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
About 90 percent of the tablets in the earliest known Sumerian archives, from the city of Uruk, are clerical records of goods paid in, workers given rations, and agricultural products distributed.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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