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1) The riddle
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In order for reporter Mike Sullivan to stop a cunning killer, he must first solve a murder hidden within a newly discovered Charles Dickens manuscript.
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Season two sees Diana and Matthew hiding in time in Elizabethan London. Here, they must find a powerful witch teacher to help Diana control her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. Enemies are everywhere, the threat to witches is growing, and Diana and Matthew's romance faces a barrage of new threats, from within as much as without.
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The Lindisfarne gospels is the greatest of Anglo-Saxon treasures and one of the world's great works of art. It is a volume of the four Gospels, in Latin, created in the early eighth century, with gloriously, riotously decorated illuminations. Drawing on significant new research, The world of the Lindisfarne gospels takes a close look at this extraordinary manuscript and the historical and religious contexts in which it was created. The world of the...
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Rival theater companies compete to produce their own unique versions of Jane Austen's childhood play, 'Sir Charles Grandison'. George Midash buys the plays manuscript at Sotheby's for Pierre, the head of the avant-garde theater troupe. Another troupe, headed by the traditional Lilianna Zorska, strives to produce their own version of the play. In her first role, a young actress is manipulated by Pierre to join his company. When Lilianna decides to...
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In 1991 an extraordinary item was put up for auction. To the untrained eye, it was nothing more than a small Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold for over $2 million. Twenty-two centuries after Archimedes wrote his most revealing mathematical work, "Infinite Secrets" reports the story of the manuscript's amazing discovery and how modern technology is being used to read its startling contents. A scribe in the 13th century had incompletely erased a 10th-century...
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