- The Sound of Music - Maria von Trapp's friend kept bugging her to write her family's story so eventually she did
- (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay - recorded by Otis Redding days before his death in a plane crash
- Kafka's last papers - "departed Prague on the last train to leave the city, five minutes before the Nazis closed the Czech border"
- Curious George - "the Reys decided to flee Paris before the Nazis seized the city. Hans built two bicycles, and they fled Paris just a few hours before it fell. Among the meager possessions they brought with them was the illustrated manuscript of Curious George."
- Beowulf - "The poem survives in a single copy in the manuscript known as the Nowell Codex....In 1731, the manuscript was damaged by a fire that swept through Ashburnham House in London, which was housing Sir Robert Cotton's collection of medieval manuscripts. It survived, but the margins were charred, and some readings were lost."
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