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"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." (German: "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.")—Heinrich Heine, from his play Almansor (1821)

WHAT WHY WHERE WHEN HOW? Did you ever wonder about the great libraries. 1814
“Did you know that entire Library of Congress collection was lost when the British burned the Capitol in 1814, and rebuilt a year later with Thomas Jefferson's personal library?”

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