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AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks
Supported by “unrestricted gifts” from Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the Harvard-based Institutional Data Initiative is ...
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Harvard bought a copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. It's actually rare and likely worth millions.
He was searching the Harvard Law School Library website in December 2023 when he found the digitized document. "First, I'd found one of the most rare documents and most significant documents in ...
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"Copy" Of Magna Carta Bought For $27.50 Turns Out To Be A 1300 CE Original
In 1946, the Harvard Law School Library spent $27.50 (around $440 in today's money) on a document known as "HLS MS 172". According to the auction catalogue where the manuscript was purchased ...
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Cut-price Magna Carta 'copy' now believed genuine and worth at least £10 MILLION
A document once believed to be a copy of the 800-year-old Magna Carta bought for just £7 is now believed to be genuine - and could be worth a fortune. Harvard Law School Library paid $27 in 1946 ...
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A Historian Pulled an Old Document Out of Storage—and Discovered an Original Magna Carta
Two British scholars discovered that an innocuous Harvard Law School Library document was actually an original 1300 copy of the Magna Carta. Believed to be a copy from 1327 when it was purchased ...