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...matter of fact, even the ignorant monks had been taught by tradition to regard this particular manuscript as the most prized possession of their library, which is a storehouse of antiquities. Tischendorf "borrowed" the book from the monks, on the plea that his health required him to work in the warmer climate of Cairo. I have seen the receipt that he gave the monastery...
Bluntly, Tischendorf stole the priceless book, and sold it to the Russian Tsar. . . . The monastery never ceased its intermittent efforts to get back the manuscript, although they were given a small sum by the Tsar, as a sort of ''hush money...
...improve the housing of the zoo's animals. Also, 900 men were requested from CWA for an indefinite number of days, to exterminate each and every Philadelphia rat. ¶ In Tennessee, CWA assigned to the State University one person and $30 to translate a German manuscript on plant diseases...
...fourth folio Shakespeares, Mary Baker Eddy's own copy of Science and Health, a Kelmscott Chaucer and a number of letters from Warren Gamaliel Harding and Thomas Jefferson. But the prize item was No. 264, an Italian leather frame holding a yellow sheet of paper, the original autograph manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner...
...envelope immediately after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor, on the night of Sept. 13-14, 1814, it was given by the author to his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson, who had a number of broadside copies printed at his own expense. The manuscript remained in the Nicholson family until the Judge's granddaughter Rebecca Post Shippen sold it in 1927 to Henry Walters, Baltimore railroad tycoon (Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville). The price was said to be around...