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March 28, 2006: British Library Reveals its Missing Books
"The full gamut of human knowledge is here and registered missing, from A Discourse Concerning the Causes and Effects of Corpulency, by Thomas Short MD, of Sheffield, in 1728, to the Book of Snuff and Snuff Boxes (1956). There are 22 diet books, four Shakespeare plays, Jimmy Greaves's autobiography and a Jamie Oliver cookbook. Someone has absentmindedly failed to return to the shelves A Forgotten Conference, a 1962 history of the negotiations at Beijing."
