Kimberly Holmes-Ross was the first generation in her family to live outside Evanston, Illinois’ 5th Ward, once the only part of the city open to Black people. She grew up …
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How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works
In Jerusalem of the year 1229, there lived a Greek Orthodox monk named Johannes Myronas. Needing some parchment for a prayer book, he grabbed some already-used pages, erased their existing …