Category Archives: English

The Telephone Booth

Posted on December 7, 2023 by babbityjean

For almost a hundred years, the telephone booth has been an icon in popular culture.  It was the changing room for Clark Kent’s transformation to Superman.  It was the negotiating room for spies and counterspies in films like North by … Continue reading →

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Unmasking a Forgery

Posted on March 2, 2023 by babbityjean

When a curator at the University of Michigan Library received the email, he was more than a bit apprehensive.  The email was from Nick Wilding, an historian at Georgia State University, who is a Galileo scholar and an expert on … Continue reading →

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The Museum of Rescued Art

Posted on February 10, 2023 by babbityjean

The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage is Italy’s world-renowned police squad dedicated to recovering stolen art.  Founded in 1969, it has tracked down and repatriated to Italy more than 3 million artifacts.  Established in 2017, the Antiquities … Continue reading →

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