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Hevelius works included on UNESCO heritage list

Hevelius devoted himself to astronomy and spared no expense and effort when constructing in 1641 his own astronomical observatory. Public domain

Five Johannes Hevelius works, including Selenographia and Machina coelestis, have been included on the National List of the UNESCO 'Memory of the World' Programme.

Chopin manuscripts to be included on UNESCO heritage list

Four Chopin manuscripts from the collection of Poland's Jagiellonian Library are to be included on the National List of the UNESCO 'Memory of the World' Programme, the library has announced.

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Appeal launched to find Jewish woman who disappeared after her husband was executed for saving woman sold as a sex slave for bottle of vodka

Lidia Przerwa was last seen in 1947 when her husband was executed by firing squad over the deaths of three Soviet soldiers who had been transporting a woman they’d bought off her own husband.

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Forgotten composer who played for Polish king and co-founded Edinburgh Festival rediscovered after distant relative finds online ad for his rare piano

Josie Dixon had little idea that her great-great-great-great grandfather Felix Yaniewicz was one of the 19th century’s most notable composers until a chance conversation about a Stradivarius violin led her on a path of discovery.

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