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from BBC News (UK)
The man who collected 18,000 books about Wales
The life of a maverick Welsh collector who built the first major library of books about Wales is being celebrated 200 years after his birth. Enoch Salisbury created a collection of over 18,000 books about Welsh culture, politics, geography and beyond. ... Yet his passion led him to bankruptcy, necessitating the sale of his collection in 1886 to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, now Cardiff University.
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from SPIEGEL International (Der Spiegel)
Angela Merkel on the Fall of the Wall: 'I Wanted to See the Rockies and Listen to Springsteen'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was 35 when the Berlin Wall came down. In an interview, she speaks of her dreams as a citizen of East Germany, the divide between Germany's East and West and the rise of the populists during her tenure.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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