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The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590
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earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.
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Born May 6, 1889 • England
Died October 11, 1967 (aged 78) • London • England
Subjects Of Study typography • printing

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Walker, Emery: Brooks's in the Olden Time
Sir Emery Walker
English printer
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
British book designer
S.H. de Roos
Dutch typographer
William Morris
British artist and author
Sir Francis Meynell
English designer
Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Giovanni Mardersteig
Italian printer
Bodoni, engraving
Giambattista Bodoni
Italian printer
Bruce Rogers
American typographer
Goudy, Frederic W.
Frederic W. Goudy
American printer and typographer
W.A. Dwiggins
American artist
Simon de Colines
French printer
Nicolas Jenson
French printer
Geoffroy Tory
French printer
William Caslon
English printer
John Baskerville
English printer
Edward Blount
English publisher
Jan Tschichold
German typographer and author
Daniel Berkeley Updike
American printer and publisher
Pierre-Simon Fournier
French engraver