Recent inductees and applicants include the Stockholm City Planning Committee Archives, the Benz patent of 1886, and Autochthonous Ethnic Music of the Caucasus on CD-ROM.

最近的应征者和申请人包括斯德哥尔摩城市规划委员会的档案，奔驰1886年的专利，以及CD—ROM上的高加索民族的原生态音乐。

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