{"id":51177,"date":"2015-05-18T04:11:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/visiting-the-virtual-vatican-library.html"},"modified":"2015-05-18T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:22:13","slug":"visiting-the-virtual-vatican-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/visiting-the-virtual-vatican-library.html","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the Virtual Vatican Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first scanned images from an effort that&#39;s expected to take some 15 years. Some amazing stuff there.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, they won&#39;t be scanning the Super Secret Vatican Code Illuminati Templar Alien Visitor stuff &#8230; but plenty of other cool manuscripts for them to share.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-first-500-books-from-the-vatican-librarys-massive-digitisation-project-are-now-online-2014-10?utm_content=buffer77495&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/6lZiPULFOA9MxFXDD1xTZktrwf3qOlo2tN0gfykPEAd6WBNCVNUnOQl_cEF3O5ypDSWsh22xRzc0FHIm6RBV05N91muy-qv71m14pDsXJzuCmJ1EDbygn5bJrwF7s7pI_ga2bQDaaiIdXtc6QS7Gj647ii7eDt_ejT2Gy4tpxd6YpWr7cZrhe2jf8j3WH1OKn5XP6tkjt_3STCpwwOfiNhMd5lIJvF4eDIWAZhFyxm4=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-first-500-books-from-the-vatican-librarys-massive-digitisation-project-are-now-online-2014-10?utm_content=buffer77495&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'>The First 500 Books From The Vatican Library&#8217;s Massive Digitization Project Are Now Online<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Vatican Library was founded in 1451 by&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/iEvhjecqbAT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first scanned images from an effort that&#39;s expected to take some 15 years. Some amazing stuff there. (Of course, they won&#39;t be scanning the Super Secret Vatican Code Illuminati Templar Alien Visitor stuff &#8230; but plenty of other cool manuscripts for them to share.) 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