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Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie ...
The library, along with four other locations in Douglas County, have a legal kiosk for anyone to use free of charge.
In a world brimming with distractions and the relentless demands of modern life, many individuals find themselves yearning ...
Ptolemy’s son added Alexandria’s famous library to the Mouseion complex. The first chief of the library, Eratosthenes, measured the earth’s circumference to an accuracy within a few hundred ...
Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge. Established by an exiled Athenian statesman the “universal library” of ...
Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies ...
The Grant Parish Sheriff's Office release stated it had arrested Deidre Fuqua, a 40-year-old resident of Alexandria, on charges of three counts of filing or maintaining false public records ...
An investigation by the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office has led to the arrest of the director of the Grant Parish Library ...
Its Lighthouse, or Pharos, was one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, towering an estimated 350 feet above Alexandria's busy harbor, but it no longer stands. Nor does its Great Library ...
The Rapides Parish Library has a new mobile app available for download on Apple and Android devices. This app is designed to ...