How a 7-year-old Aleppo girl on Twitter became our era’s Anne Frank

The saga of Bana al-Abed, however, is still unfolding, and we’re watching in real time.
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Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

There are amazing things hidden in the stacks of the University of Virginia library. A project called Book Traces is underway to look inside every book in the stacks that was published before 1923 for “interventions” that may shed light on how the books were read, studied, and used as physical objects. As libraries make moves towards digital collections and books are scanned and then discarded or stored, this kind of information will likely be lost—a love letter tucked into a novel might just be thrown away because it was blocking the text.
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A Wonderful Life: How Postwar Christmas Embraced Spaceships, Nukes, Cellophane

The Christmas most of us experience today is a relatively new phenomenon, mostly conceived and codified in the wake of World War II.
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Danny MacAskill’s Wee Day Out

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From Damascus: US Covert Action in Syria with Special Forces veteran Jack Murphy

Brad Hoff for TheCanary.co
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Beyond Hope

What did he accomplish? And how much of it will survive in the age of Trump? Five historians and political observers weigh in. By Eric Bates.
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Leaving Aleppo | Pictures

Ambulances and buses evacuating people drive out of a rebel-held part of Aleppo.
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