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One of the existing copies of the Magna Carta, the charter of rights presented to England's King John at Runnymede in 1215, will be displayed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this spring. The version that's coming dates to 1217 and belongs to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, the LAT says. Here's an English translation of the original.
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A Magna Carta is coming to LACMA
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