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created_at: '2016-08-10T00:26:16.000Z'
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title: A Prayer for Archimedes (2007)
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url: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/prayer-archimedes
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author: signa11
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points: 87
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num_comments: 33
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created_at_i: 1470788776
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- story
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objectID: '12258673'
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year: 2007
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---
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For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in
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France, passed down from one generation to the next. Its mildewed
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parchment pages were stiff and contorted, tarnished by burn marks and
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waxy smudges. Behind the text of the prayers, faint Greek letters
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marched in lines up the page, with an occasional diagram disappearing
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into the spine.
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