The parchment denouncing and dissolving the Knights Templar has been found in the Vatican Library. Turns out it was mis-cataloged (thus proving my favorite library-school professor's statement that cataloging and indexing are all you really need to know about librarianship). Then it was found by one of the archivists--a woman, incidentally (they let women work in the Vatican Library?? I guess as long as she keeps her head covered modestly...), thus proving the importance of hiring good archivists...
OK, now that I've used this as a soapbox to declare the importance of both my job and my husband's I'll sign off...
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Wow!!
Huh. I'd have expected the Company to wait a few more centuries, it would be much more valuable later. I suppose history decreed that it was discovered in 2007, and that was that...
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