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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Cooking With the Dead: To Die For' tries out recipes etched on tombstones

Who'd have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery? But that's just where Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson's cookie recipe lives, etched in stone at her final resting place at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. When archivist Rosie Grant, who was was completing an internship at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., learned about this recipe on a gravestone back in 2021,
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fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

Secrets of a Radical Duke

A large ceremonial parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence—the Sussex Declaration—was discovered in West Sussex, implying British transatlantic connections to American independence.
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fromThe Washington Post
5 months ago

In Harvard's archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta

A rare original of the Magna Carta was discovered at Harvard Law School, previously misidentified as a copy.
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