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Manuscripts are back in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, but they serve a slightly different purpose this time around. These manuscripts offer free skill points (SP), which allows you to unlock new abilities in each character's folio skill trees. Normally, SP is only gained through level-ups, so finding these collectibles is one way to quickly earn as many skills as possible. Here's where to find all manuscripts in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.All manuscript locationsEach character has their own manuscripts to find,…

In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song.On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from his band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a dark desert highway” and “a lovely place” with a luxurious surface and ominous undertones. And something on ice, perhaps caviar or Taittinger – or pink Champagne?The song, Hotel California, became one of rock’s most indelible singles. And nearly 50 years later, those handwritten pages of lyrics-in-the-making have become the centre of an unusual…

Iconic conductor John Williams performing in 2014.Photo: Paul Morigi (Getty Images)For the last 50 years, when you think of music and movies, one name stands above the rest: John Williams. Williams is one of the most celebrated and successful composers of all time thanks to his music for Jaws, Superman, Jurassic Park, Home Alone, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, and on and on.Out of all the music Williams has created, though, he’s probably best known for Star Wars. Writing music for all nine films of the Skywalker Saga,…

Credit: Regionaal Archief Alkmaar A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest. Many books were printed and bound in the 16th…

Esther Inglis Manuscript. Credit: University of St Andrews A never-before seen manuscript by Scottish-based artisan Esther Inglis, dating back to the early 1600s, was unveiled at The University of St Andrews this week at The International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Languages, Literature and Culture. Esther…

P.9 recto of the Heege Manuscript. ‘Red herring’ appears 3-4 lines from the bottom of the page. Credit: National Library of ScotlandAn unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. These boisterous texts – which include jests at the expense of kings, priests, and peasants; advocate for audience inebriation; and surprise them with physical comedy – provide fresh insights into the renowned British sense of humor and the significant role minstrels held in medieval…

Within 2 weeks after a preprint was posted to arXiv on 31 March, outrage erupted on Twitter and multiple co-authors requested their names be removed. The issue wasn’t the science, which focused on the detection of exoplanets, but its authorship. To the dismay of many astronomers, Geoff Marcy was listed as the third of 16 authors. Marcy was once a prominent astronomer at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, known for leading efforts to search for planets…

Eadburg’s name scribbled with a cross at the top of one page.Image: Bodleian LibrariesResearchers inspecting a New Testament manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library have discovered Medieval scribbles in the tome’s margins that they believe link the text to a woman named Eadburg.A photography technique called photometric stereo, designed to render relief by emphasizing highlights and shadows on a page, broughtthe scribbles out from obscurity. The digital imaging techniques allowed researchers to better see and interpret…

Lana Del Rey took to Instagram to inform her followers that a laptop, three video cameras, and several hard drives were swiped from her car while it was parked in Los Angeles.Del Rey revealed the theft on Melrose Place “a few months ago” has resulted in a number of unfinished songs leaking, as well as personal photos finding their way online. She was also forced to delete the files on her laptop, which included a long manuscript.“I had to remotely wipe the computer that had my 200-page book for Simon & Schuster, which…

A folio from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh, one of the “finest illustrated manuscripts in existence” according to Sotheby’s, is expected to fetch between £4m and £6m at auction next month.The Shahnameh, also known as the Book of Kings, is an epic poem containing 50,000 rhyming couplets, telling the history of Persia’s rulers. It was written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between 977 and 1010.The folio up for auction was made for Shah Tahmasp of Persia in the 16th century. The manuscript was illustrated over the course of two…