Historical Highlights #044

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For this week’s historical highlights here are three intriguing articles for your perusal.

“The Great Library Rescue of Timbuktu”

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Mali’s private libraries—like this one, the Fondo Kati—trace their literary treasures back centuries. Photography By Alexandra Huddleston

“On Exhibit: One Hundred Years of the National Park Service”

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John Muir (fourth from right) and President Teddy Roosevelt (center) with park officials during a visit to Yosemite in 1905. (National Archives Identifier 2132678)

“The Pioneers of Video Game Technology Are About to Become the Stuff of History”

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A 1959 exhibition of the first video game “Tennis For Two,” designed physicist William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958. (Flickr Creative Commons/ Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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