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February 20, 2014 04:27 pm PST
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The fight to save Timbuktu's intellectualhistory
Timbuktu, Mali, has been a seat of culture and learning for hundreds of years. When jihadists moved in last year and threatened to destroy the city's collection of scholarly work dating back to the medieval period, residents banded together to save the manuscripts.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-doRVUcvKes/story01.htm
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