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The earliest existing bookmark dates from the 6th century AD and it is made of ornamented leather lined with vellum on the back and was attached with a leather strap to the cover of a Coptic codex (Codex A, MS 813 Chester Beatty Library, Dublin).[2] It was found near Sakkara, Egypt, under the ruins of the monastery Apa Jeremiah. Further earliest... See more
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Kei Kreutler, in Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity, reframes cultural memory systems—rituals, archives, architectures—not as storehouses of facts, but as technologies of orientation. Their purpose is to help agents navigate an overwhelming and shifting landscape of relevance. Memory in this sense is not for preservation but for direction—for
... See moreThe first detached, and therefore collectible, bookmarkers began to appear in the 1850s. One of the first references to these is found in Mary Russell Mitford's Recollections of a Literary Life (1852): "I had no marker and the richly bound volume closed as if instinctively." Note the abbreviation of 'bookmarker' to 'marker'. The modern abbreviation... See more
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During the European Middle Ages, science fictional themes appeared within many chivalric romance and legends. Robots and automata featured in romances starting in the twelfth century, with Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne and Enéas among the first.[31]: 5–6 The Roman de Troie, another twelfth-century work, features the famous Chambre de Beautes, which
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