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[edit] 10 March 2007

• ...that the Embassy Gulf Service Station (pictured) in Washington, D.C. was designed to be reminiscent of banks and libraries?
• ...that the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974?
• ...that the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad, as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John?
• ...that a major source for Greek mythology, the first Vatican Mythographer, survives in a single text in the Vatican Library?

[edit] 26 November 2006

• ... that St. Lawrence is the patron saint of librarians?
• ... that in the 1984 murder mystery by Jane Smiley, Duplicate Keys, a New York Public Library librarian stumbles on two dead bodies?
• ... that the Geisel Library (pictured) at UCSD, with its unique architecture, is a San Diego landmark?
• ... that the foundation of the modern public library system in the UK is the Public Libraries Act 1850?

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