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Archived articles

Special collections

Illuminating the weird

Published Summer 2016

A peek at some of the strangest items in the George Peabody Library / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Favorite things

Curse tablets and other 'priceless' treasures

Published Summer 2014

A joke book. A Roman curse tablet. A clump of a cow's hair. Call them collectors' picks. / Johns Hopkins Magazine