library

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The richest cache, in Kolkata's National Library, consists of 21 volumes devoted to the reign of Aurangzeb, who ruled the Mughal empire from 1658 to 1707 and was its last great expansionist emperor.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

Before the initial increase for the building work, the Sovereign Grant in 2016-17 had been about £43m, which taking into account inflation, would now be about £58m, using figures from the House of Commons Library.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026

That winter, he and Chakrabarti pored over the works of Paul Cret, the French-American architect who designed the Federal Reserve, the Folger Shakespeare Library and other buildings around Washington and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

The event "was so low-profile that neither the Denver Post nor Rocky Mountain News even bothered to send a reporter," noted Brian Trembath in a Denver Public Library blog.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

“As a library reaches out to the community surrounding it,” said the bizarro billionaire, “so do the games of the first Library Olympiad!”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein