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White, a librarian at the federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, wrote the book in 2011. [1] White previously administered the Historical Atlas of the 20th Century on his own website, and became interested in the subject due to constant arguments in cyberspace about who was actually responsible for various atrocities throughout history. [2]
A bookplate of Malcolm Ferguson (1920–2011), example of a modern book curse. A book curse was a widely employed method of discouraging the theft of manuscripts during the medieval period in Europe. The use of book curses dates back much further, to pre-Christian times, when the wrath of gods was invoked to protect books and scrolls.
The entire contents of the Casa Școalelor had been emptied, with books on national popular culture and religious works were burned. A librarian of the Academy, Barbu Lăzăreanu, was put in charge of maps, documents, photographs, the unique lexicographical file of the Romanian language, which all were proving the Latin origin of Romanian.
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The library has been historically located [by whom?] as being underneath the Kremlin, and has become a source of interest for researchers, archaeologists, treasure-hunters, and historical figures such as Emperor Peter the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte. Under Ivan IV's rule (1533-1584), tales of the library grew.