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palimpsest

a manuscript with a text written over an earlier one;
anything bearing multiple layers of significance

Sightings:

Language speaks people

When books are outlawed, only Ptolemys will have books

Toying with infinity

Orthodox prayers and floating bodies

A church with stratigraphy

Original sources

What you get when you marry a bird to a goat

Archimedes with an Inkjet
(explore for slide show and illustrations)

Afghanistan: past and present colliding

The illustrated history of information
(explore for more art glass panels)

Erasing the mind

Interacting with yourself

When Ganymede behaved differently

Overlapping geology

A hypertext treatise on the brain

A blog for language arts teachers

Quilts as art

Re-use your liaisons, lest you be erased from collective memory

Who gets to tell history?
(explore for more Central Europe studies)

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