These little fiery gems also present a winningly cozy aspect and offer a rare document not just of Victorian design but of changing tastes.
In his "Notes on the State of Virginia," a rare document privately printed in Paris in 1785, Jefferson argued: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
The BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome says this one is a rare document, in that it combines the work of two popes - the new pontiff and his predecessor.
The California ground squirrel's behavior is a rare documented case of olfactory camouflage among vertebrates, Ms. Clucas said.
Researchers say the exchange is a rare documented example of beneficial genetic flow between species.
Hurricane Juliette was a rare documented case of triple eyewalls.
When I transferred the recording to digital media, edited it, and assembled the tracks for the album I did it primarily to preserve this rare document of our work.
He was dining with a friend, Bill Holman, in a Chinese restaurant in Austin and discussing one of their favorite subjects - the old, rare documents of Texas history that Holman, a former librarian and printer, studies, and that Taylor, a printer and book merchant, dabbles in selling.
"While the Codex Hammer is an exceedingly important and rare document, the sale of this manuscript would least impact the core aesthetic identity of the Armand Hammer collections," Hopkins said in a prepared statement.
For 11 days, from July 28 to August 7, 2006, a team of academics—x-ray scientists, rare document conservators and scholars of ancient mathematics will return to the experimental station at SLAC, scrutinizing more of the ancient Greek characters, unseen for centuries, scrolling across computer screens as the x-ray beam carefully scans the parchment.
