For Ato Essandoh, it was leafing through the worn leather journal of his character, Dr. Matthew Freeman, to discover ornate, accurate sketches of medicinal roots from 1864.

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Journal pages are scanned in at high resolution, and the text is extracted using optical character-recognition software.

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In early editions of the March 7 Journal, an op-ed on guns that look like toys mistakenly referred to the Hello Kitty character in that context.

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Under his transparent pseudonym (the name Malagrowther is a character in one of his novels), Sir Walter wrote three letters to the Edinburgh Weekly Journal.

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The Wall Street Journal said MGM executives had been particularly irritated at a part of the trailer in which Myers's character is painted in sparkling gold, the trademark of the Bond film.

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