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Some highlights from special collections libraries' blogs this week. Some More Birthdays Items from the Folger Shakespeare Library that are 250, 500, 750, 1000, and 2000 years old. Recipes and Recycling An 18th century manuscript perhaps bound in the wrapper its paper came in. Leiden University to Return Chola Plates to India The 11th century legal documents were brought to the Netherlands by a missionary in the 18th century. How a Radical Historian Saved the Schlock of '76 (NYT gift link)