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Feb 02, 2012

National Archives Now in Possession of the Magna Carta

David Rubenstein, the billionaire venture capitalist and philanthropist, unveiled at the National Archives this morning his copy of the Magna Carta, the 13th-century English document that set the groundwork for our system of common law.

 
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