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Dreyfus affair

a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906

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Pinakes

a bibliographic work composed by Callimachus that is popularly considered to be the first library catalog

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Library of Alexandria

one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world

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used to separate and restrict the movement of persons

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a hybrid of a puma and a leopard

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an illustrated manuscript book by an unknown author, with a text in an unknown language and writing system, that surfaced in Hungary in the early 19th century

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a manuscript written in Old Frisian

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an encrypted manuscript consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume

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a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels estimated to be worth over US$63 million as of September 2011

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a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing

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a prehistoric glyptodont, living during the Pleistocene until the end of the last glacial period, some 11,000 years ago

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a poem written near the time of one's own death

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a process in linguistic morphology derivation in which complex words are formed by stringing together morphemes without changing them in spelling or phonetics

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describes persons who cannot be found, yet have not been or cannot be reported as missing persons to law enforcement

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an unidentified female discovered on November 23, 2008 in Ashford, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

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the name given to a set of female human remains, discovered in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina on December 6, 1995

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the remains of a medieval man's body found in a bog in Varberg Municipality, Sweden, which is one of the best-preserved finds in Europe from that era