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Government warehouse (fiction)
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[[Image:Government Warehouse.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Government Warehouse at the end of the movie ''[[Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.]]

(contracted; show full)ices Administration]], which has such ordinary suburban comforts as wiring, plumbing, and heating; and also a few less-ordinary features: two-foot-thick concrete walls, a dock, a Navy-standard machine shop, and a Navy-standard [[recompression chamber]]. Kelly was issued the lease through the intervention of a grateful [[admiral]] whose son Kelly had rescued from [[North Vietnam]]. The GSA's files of disused properties serve the same purpose as a physical warehouse but can accommodate larger objects.


==Real-world government warehouses ==
The government warehouses of fiction and [[conspiracy theories]] have a number of analogues in the real world, although some are not run by official national governments. Historically, the template is the [[Library of Alexandria|Great Library of Alexandria]], which held an extensive collection of written works but was repeatedly destroyed during the first millennium AD. The [[Vatican Secret Archives]]<ref>[http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm Vatican<!-- bot-generated title -->] at asv.vatican.va</ref> are alleged to hold the secrets of the [[Knights Templar]]. Many prominent museums have extensive archives which often lay undisturbed for decades, such as the [[Cairo Museum]] in Egypt, which was found in 2002 to have 80,000 items - more than half the museum's collection - stored away in its vaults.<ref>[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1213_021213_cairomuseum.html Cairo Museum Unveils &quot;Lost&quot; Egyptian Treasures<!-- bot-generated title -->] at news.nationalgeographic.com</ref>

In the United States, the [[National Archives and Records Administration]] and the [[Library of Congress]] both have numerous government warehouses to store historic items and documents.⏎
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.indyfan.com/gallery/wander/raiders/warehouse.jpg Screenshot of the Government Warehouse] from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', [http://www.scifijapan.com/international/IJ4-IA-4242-R.jpg another screenshot] from ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''


[[Category:Conspiracy theories]]
[[Category:Fictional secret bases]]
[[Category:Plot devices]]
[[Category:Warehouses]]

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