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After nearly 90 years apart, Winnie-the-Pooh's beloved friend Roo has finally returned home to the New York Public Library. Queen Camilla delivered a handcrafted replica of the baby kangaroo toy that vanished from an apple orchard in the 1930s.
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Eight passionate love letters from legendary poet John Keats to his fiancée vanished in 1989, but suspicious rare book dealers just cracked the case wide open. Their detective work returned priceless literary history to its rightful owners.
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A literary researcher stumbled upon a 370-year-old map showing exactly where William Shakespeare's mysterious London house once stood. The discovery challenges everything we thought we knew about the playwright's final years.
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From New York to New Zealand, hundreds of Shakespeare gardens celebrate the playwright with flowers and herbs from his works. These living tributes have been spreading joy and connecting people to nature for over 130 years.
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A Polish immigrant who defied her father and became one of the 1920s' most beloved authors is experiencing a literary renaissance. Anzia Yezierska's powerful stories about immigrant women are finding new readers a century later.
A London family just discovered that two watercolors hanging on their walls for decades are original Jungle Book illustrations lost for over a century. Only six of the original 16 paintings are known to survive.