Hacking the planet with Notcurses
Hacking the planet with Notcurses
Posted Mar 23, 2020 20:32 UTC (Mon) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)In reply to: Hacking the planet with Notcurses by Cyberax
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> A recent fire in the Russian Library ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/31/fire-russia... ) destroyed many books and documents that existed only as a single copy.
And that's just accidental destruction. During World War I, when German invaded Belgium, they were so incensed by Belgian resistance that they destroyed - amongst other things - a library that contained what was then around a third of the world's extant medieval manuscripts and books.
After the war, other collections donated some of their works to rebuild the collection. During World War II, Germany again violated Belgian neutrality, and decided to punish the Belgians for objecting by obliterating the same library.
(Source: Barbara Tuchman's 1914)