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British Museum Reading Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library. |
 | | The Reading Room was used by a large number of famous figures, including notably Karl Marx), Oscar Wilde, Mohandas Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Vladimir Lenin and H. |
 | | In the 2001 Japanese anime OVA Read or Die, the Reading Room is used as the secret entrance to the British Library's fictional "Special Operations Division." Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film Blackmail (1929). |
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