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Claims that Russia's Border Guard ships fired warning shots at HMS Defender, reinforces the sense of Russia being not the kind of mature great power Vladimir Putin tried to present at Geneva, says Honorary Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies).

It's been more than a year since the coronavirus halted physical access to the UCLA Library.

Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer offers 'a radically different reading experience' It was 29 B.C., two years into the reign of the emperor Augustus, when the Roman poet Vergil began writing his great epic, the  Aeneid .

It is hard to know what is most surprising about the revelation that Russia was behind a Czech depot explosion: the timing, the scale of the Czech response, or the operation itself, says Honorary Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies).

Quite a few of the antique clay tablets which Prof. Kristin Kleber works with look as if a chicken has walked across damp clay.

Cultura Rosanna Rion, lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies of the Faculty of Philology and Communication, has translated for the first time into another language -Spanishthe book Arrow Music (Animal Sospechoso, 2021), by the poetess Bryher.

The University of Chicago has long championed collaborative research as a promising strategy for addressing complex questions.

Collection chronicles the African American experience post-Civil War and documents migration West The UC San Diego Library announced today the addition of its first African Americana collection—the Turner Collection—to its Special Collections & Archives (SC&A).

Readers expect to find tales, not tails, in books. This story is about the latter. A Carnegie Mellon University Libraries patron discovered a bagged, flattened snake in a copy of Brenda Shaughnessy's "The Octopus Museum." Samuel L. Jackson would not be pleased.