I enjoyed the section on the Magna Carta's Anniversary, ("800 Years of Magna Carta," NYLJ, May 1), but I think history diminished its importance. It granted rights mostly to the nobility and expressly ...
The world is loved, even cherished. Jewish tradition instructs its people to bless bread and wine, to welcome the Sabbath with song, to sanctify ordinary moments with extraordinary gratitude. Amos Oz, ...
The Queen leads celebrations to commemorate the sealing of the Magna Carta. — -- Queen Elizabeth led celebrations today to commemorate the sealing of the Magna Carta 800 years ago in a field ...
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Harvard thought it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta. It turned out to be extremely rare
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have ...
Until the past week, I had held fast to the belief that America’s version of representative democracy, which has been around since the Constitution was ratified in 1788, was stronger than one person, ...
In 1946, the library of Harvard Law School purchased a tattered document for $27.50. Records described it as a “rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta, Britain’s 1215 charter that limited ...
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