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Harvard Paid $27 For a 'Copy' of The Magna Carta. It Turned Out to Be The Real Thing.


A "copy" of the Magna Carta, the medieval English document that has formed the basis of constitutions around the world, owned by Harvard Law School is actually an exceedingly rare original, British researchers said Thursday.

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