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In 1908, a researcher was going through the archives in the Royal Life

Library in Copenhagen. He was an anthropologist named Richard Peachman, but we

don't actually know specifically what he was looking for in the library that

day. But I think we can probably assume that he had spent a long time in the

dusty aisles of the archives. Hours, days, even weeks. His eyes were probably

going blurry from hours staring at narrow cursive script. I imagine his hands

slivered with paper cuts and his mind racked with exhaustion. And then, perhaps

snuck on the bottom of a shelf or hidden within a large folio, Richard saw

something strange, something that looked unfamiliar and out of place. The

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