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Michael Hart’s 70th Birthday
Michael Stern Hart was born in Tacoma, Washington on March 8, 1947. He died on September 6, 2011 in his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64. March 8, 2017 would have been his 70th birthday.
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~ ~ ~ ~ Posting Dates for the below eBooks: 1 Feb 2017 to 28 Feb 2017 ~ ~ ~ ~ TITLE and AUTHOR ETEXT NO. Sämmtliche Werke 2: Die Toten Seelen II / Novellen, by Nikolaj Gogol 54263 [Subtitle: Die Toten Seelen II / Der Mantel / Die Nase / Das Porträt] [Language: German] Sämmtliche Werke 1: Die Toten Seelen I, by Nikolaj Gogol 54262 [Language: German] The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, by John Richard Vernon 54261 [Subtitle: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives] The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind, by Rudolf Steiner 54260 No Posting 54259 The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 16, October 17, 1840, by Various 54258 A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights 54257 Entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5 of 17, by Richard F. Burton Frank Reade Jr.'s Air Wonder, The "Kite"; Or, A Six 54256 Weeks' Flight Over The Andes, by Luis Senarens Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth 54255 Century, Volume II, by Evliya, Çelebi, 1611?-1682?, by Evliya Çelebi and Joseph Hammer-Purgstall The Search After Happiness, by Charlotte Brontèe 54254 [Author a.k.a. Charlotte Bronte] A Selected Bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699, by Earl Gregg Swem 54253 and John Melville Jennings The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 15, October 10, 1840, by Various 54252 English Law and the Renaissance, by Frederic William Maitland 54251 [Subtitle: The Rede Lecture for 1901] The Albigensian Heresy, by Henry James Warner 54250 Bastiljin valloitus, by Alexandre Dumas, père 54249 [Language: Finnish] Jüdische Sprichwörter, by Artur Landsberger 54248 [Language: German] Beyond These Voices, by M. E. Braddon 54247 The Clergy And The Pulpit In Their Relations To The People, 54246 by M. L'Abbé Isidore Mullois Bygone Scotland, by David Maxwell 54245 [Subtitle: Historical and Social] Practical Methods of Sewage Disposal, by Henry N. Ogden 54244 and H. Burdett Cleveland [Subtitle: For Residences, Hotels and Institutions] Demoniality, by The Rev. Father Sinistrari of Ameno 54243 [Subtitle: or Incubi and Succubi] Väinämöiset, by Carl Axel Gottlund 54242 [Subtitle: Yksi kokous meijän nykyisten runojain virren-teoista] [Language: Finnish] The Cubomedusæ, by Franklin Story Conant 54241 Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 54240 Series3, Volume 4, Zoology, by Various Mistress Nancy Molesworth, by Joseph Hocking 54239 [Subtitle: A Tale of Adventure] The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 14, October 3, 1840, by Various 54238 Prästgården, by K. G. Ossian-Nilsson 54237 [Subtitle: En Julhistoria] [Language: Swedish] The Intruder, by Gabriele D'Annunzio 54236 The Office of Bailiff of a Liberty, by Joseph Ritson 54235 The American Missionary, Volume 33, No. 7, July, 1879, by Various 54234 The Vivisectors' Directory, by Various 54233 [Subtitle: Being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the UnitedKingdom, together with the leading physiologists in foreignlaboratories] [Editor: Benjamin Bryan] The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 13, September 26, 1840, by Various 54232 La casserole, by Oscar Méténier 54231 [Subtitle: drame en un acte, en prose] [Language: French] The Gates Ajar, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 54230 Kuningattaren kaulanauha, by Alexandre Dumas père 54229 [Subtitle: Historiallinen romaani Ludvig XVI:n hovista] [Language: Finnish] El buey suelto.., by José María de Pereda 54228 [Subtitle: Cuadros edificantes de la vida de un solterón] [Language: Spanish] De afstamming van den mensch, by J. Boeke 54227 [Subtitle: Naar voordrachten in populair- wetenschappelijken vorm bewerkt] [Language: Dutch] Servetus and Calvin, by Robert Willis 54226 [Subtitle: A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation] Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International 54225 Military Tribunal, Volume III, by Various [Subtitle: Nuremburg 14 November 1945-1 October 1946] Venice; A Sketch-Book, by Fred Richards 54224 Onesimus, by Edwin Abbott Abbott 54223 [Subtitle: Memoirs of a disciple of St. Paul] Blood and Sand, by Vincente Blasco Ibáñez 54222 Induction Coils, How to Make, Use, and Repair Them, by H. S. Norrie 54221 [Subtitle: Including Ruhmkorff, Tesla, and medical coils, RoentgenRadiography, etc.] Oxford; A Sketch-Book, by Fred Richards 54220 A Little English Gallery, by Louise Imogen Guiney 54219 A Lady of England, by Agnes Giberne 54218 [Subtitle: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker] The Farmer's Own Book, by J. D. Koogle 54217 [Subtitle: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse] The Mary Frances First Aid Book, by Jane Eayre Fryer 54216 [Subtitle: With Ready Reference List of Ordinary Accidents and Illnesses, and Approved Home Remedies] [Illustrator: Jane Alen Boyer] The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake, by Margaret Georgina Todd 54215 A Story of the Golden Age, by James Baldwin 54214 [Illustrator: Howard Pyle] 1917 Military Equipment:, by Sears, Roebuck & Co 54213 [Subtitle: Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago] A Modern Mephistopheles and A Whisper in the Dark, by Lousia M. Alcott 54212 American War Ballads and Lyrics, Vol. 2 of 2, by Various 54211 [Subtitle: A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial Wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War with Mexico and the Civil War] [Editor: George Cary Eggleston] The Principles of Chemistry. Vol. 2 of 2, by D. Mendeléeff 54210 The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 12, September 19, 1840, by Various 54209 Standard Measures of United States, Great Britain and France, 54208 by Arthur S. C. Wurtele [Subtitle: History and actual comparisons with appendix on introduction of the mètre] Surun tie, by Jalmari Hahl 54207 [Subtitle: Romaani] [Language: Finnish] No Posting 54206 Kirjeitä myllyltäni, by Alphonse Daudet 54205 [Language: Finnish] Pikku kertoelmia, by Theodolinda Hahnsson 54204 [Language: Finnish] The Prisoners of Mainz, by Alec Waugh 54203 [Illustrator: R. T. Roussel] Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 54202 [Illustrator: Eugène Delacroix] [Language: French] William Wilberforce, der Sklavenfreund, by Hugo Oertel 54201 [Subtitle: Ein Lebensbild, für die deutsche Jugend und das deutscheVolk gezeichnet] [Language: German] Odysseia, by Homer 54200 [Language: Swedish] Florence; A Sketch-Book, by Fred Richards 54199 Canterbury, A Sketch Book, by Walter M. Keesey 54198 Cambridge, A Sketch Book, by Walter M. Keesey 54197 The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs, by George Griffin Lewis 54196 Grit, by Horatio Alger, Jr. 54195 [Subtitle: or The Young Boatman of Pine Point] Some Longer Elizabethan Poems, by Various 54194 The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained, by E. A. Posselt 54193 [Subtitle: With an appendix on the preparation of jacquard cards...] Majakanvartija y.m. kertomuksia, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 54192 [Language: Finnish] An Address to the Sisters of St. Peter's Home, Brompton, 54191 by Edward Meyrick Goulburn The Spirit of the School, by Ralph Henry Barbour 54190 Latvia & Russia, by Arveds Karlis Kristaps Bergs 54189 [Subtitle: One problem of the world-peace considered] The History and Romance of Crime: Oriental Prisons, by Arthur Griffiths 54188 [Subtitle: From the earliest times to the present day] The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789, 54187 by Alexis de Tocqueville [Subtitle: And the Causes Which Led to That Event] Squire Arden, Vol. 3 of 3, by Margaret Oliphant 54186 Varjenka, by Maksim Gorky 54185 [Language: Finnish] Snövit barnens julkalender 1918, by Various 54184 [Subtitle: Illustrerad läsning ur verklighetens och sagans värld] [Illustrator: Various] [Language: Swedish] Le livre de la Jungle, by Rudyard Kipling 54183 [Language: French] Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, 1405-1449, by Alexandre Tuetey 54182 [Language: French] Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Vol. 2 of 2, by James Bruce 54181 [Subtitle: In the years 1769, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773] Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Vol. 1 of 2, by James Bruce 54180 [Subtitle: In the years 1769, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773] Remarks on the proposed Railway between Birmingham and London, 54179 by Anonymous La vita operosa, by Massimo Bontempelli 54178 [Subtitle: Nuovi racconti d'avventure] [Language: Italian] No Posting 54177 The cremation of the dead, by Hugo Erichsen 54176 [Subtitle: considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint] Mevr. Warren's Bedrijf, by George Bernard Shaw 54175 [Language: Dutch] Rouva de la Motte, by Alexandre Dumas, père 54174 [Language: Finnish] How To Make Candy, by Various 54173 [Subtitle: A Complete Hand Book] One Touch of Nature, by Benjamin Webster 54172 [Subtitle: A Petite Drama, In One Act] Notes of hospital life from November, 1861, to August, 1863, 54171 by Anonymous Die Einsamkeit, by Christoph August Tiedge 54170 [Language: German] A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, Vol. 3 of 3, 54169 by Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer and Robert Ridgway English Lands Letters and Kings: From Celt to Tudor, 54168 by Donald Grant Mitchell Commentario de le piu notabili, & mostruose cose d'Italia, 54167 & di altri luoghi, by Ortensio Lando [Subtitle: di lingua aramea in Italiana tradotto, nelquale si impara,& prendesi estremo piacere] [Language: Italian] London at Night, by Frederick Carter 54166 [Subtitle: A sketch-book] Ariosto, Shakespeare, Corneille, by Benedetto Croce 54165 Sortovuosilta, by Konni Zilliacus 54164 [Subtitle: Poliittisia muistelmia] [Language: Finnish] Ski-runs in the High Alps, by François Frédéric Roget 54163 [Illustrator: L. M. Crisp] The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton 54162 with Introductory Matter and Notes The republic of Cicero, by Marcus Tullius Cicero 54161 [Subtitle: Translated from the Latin and Accompanied With a Criticaland Historical Introduction] The Lushei Kuki Clans, by John Shakespear 54160 Busy Brownies, by E. Veale 54159 [Illustrator: Palmer Cox] Myrkkyvyöhyke, by Arthur Conan Doyle 54158 [Language: Finnish] Fjällbyfolk, by Maria Rieck-Müller 54157 [Subtitle: Bilder från öfre Norrland] [Language: Swedish] The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 10, September 5, 1840, by Various 54156 The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 11, September 12, 1840, by Various 54155 Vision and Design, by Roger Fry 54154 Biographical Sketches of the Generals of the ContinentalArmy 54153 of the Revolution, by Mary Theresa Leiter Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1951-1959, by the U. S. Copyright 54152 Office of the Library of Congress [Subtitle: Catalog of Copyright Entries] Shakespeare the Boy, by William James Rolfe 54151 [Subtitle: With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time] The Medieval Latin Hymn, by Ruth Ellis Messenger 54150 A History of Advertising, by Henry Sampson 54149 [Subtitle: From the Earliest Times] Love's Old Sweet Song, by George Herman Ellwanger 54148 Dorothy Dale and Her Chums, by Margaret Penrose 54147 [Margaret Penrose is a pseudonym of the Stratemeyer Syndicate] A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors, by McGraw-Hill Book Company 54146 [Subtitle: Details of manuscript preparation, Typograpy, Proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books] The Decline and Fall of Whist, by John Petch Hewby 54145 [Subtitle: An Old Fashioned View of New Fangled Play] No Posting 54144 English Lands Letters and Kings: The Later Georges to Victoria, 54143 by Donald Grant Mitchell English Lands Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne, 54142 by Donald Grant Mitchell A Party in Mother Goose Land, by Effa E. Preston 54141 [Subtitle: A One Act Play for Primary Children] The Exeter Road, by Charles G. Harper 54140 [Subtitle: the story of the west of England highway] Murrosaikana, by Zakarias Nielsen 54139 [Language: Finnish] Camp Cookery, by Maria Parloa 54138 [Subtitle: How to Live in Camp] Logic as the Science of the pure Concept, by Benedetto Croce 54137 Ocean Steamships, by F. E. Chadwick, John H. Gould, 54136 J. D. J. Kelley, William H. Rideing and A. E. Seaton [Subtitle: A popular account of their construction, development,management and appliances] Whist or Bumblepuppy, by John Petch Hewby 54135 [Subtitle: Thirteen Lectures Addressed to Children] The Senator's Bride, by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller 54134 [Author a.k.a. Mittie Frances Clarke Point] A Little Queen of Hearts, by Ruth Ogden 54133 [Subtitle: An International Story] [Illustrator: H. A. Ogden] A Loyal Little Red-Coat, by Ruth Ogden 54132 [Subtitle: A Story of Child-life in New York a Hundred Years Ago] [Illustrator: H. A. Ogden] The American Missionary, Volume 33, No. 12, December 1879, by Various 54131 Wall street stories, by Edwin Lefèvre 54130 Sixteen years in Siberia, by Leo Deutsch 54129 [Subtitle: Some experiences of a Russian revolutionist] The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 9, August 29, 1840, by Various 54128 Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem 54127 Zusammenhange, II, Band, by Friedrich Dannemann [Subtitle: Von Galilei bis zur Mitte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts] [Language: German] No Posting 54126 Beyond the Old Frontier, by George Bird Grinnell 54125 [Subtitle: Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-Traders] War the Creator, by Gelett Burgess 54124 Nuoruuden tunnustuksia, by I. N. Potapenko 54123 [Subtitle: Romaani] [Language: Finnish] Squire Arden, Vol. 2 of 3, by Margaret Oliphant 54122 Tom Pinder, Foundling, by Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes 54121 [Subtitle: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood] La Isabelina, by Pío Baroja 54120 [Subtitle: Memorias de un hombre de acción, tomo 10] [Language: Spanish] The American Missionary, Volume 33, No. 6, June, 1879, by Various 54119 De avonturen van kapitein Bob, by Daniel Defoe 54118 [Illustrators: Johanna Frederika Langeler and Johannes Petrus Antonius Wiegman] [Language: Dutch] Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, by Various 54117 [Subtitle: Vol. XLI, No. 6. June, 1885] Castle Blair, by Flora L. Shaw 54116 [Subtitle: A Story of Youthful Days] [Illustrators: I. Whitney and H. Whitney] History of the Inquisition from Its Establishement 54115 Till the Present Time, by William Sime The Story in Primary Instruction, by Samuel Buel Allison 54114 and Hannah Avis Perdue [Subtitle: Sixteen Stories and How to Use Them] Noveller och skizzer, by Johannes Alfthan 54113 [Language: Swedish] Todo al Vuelo, by Rubén Darío 54112 [Subtitle: Obras Completas Vol. XVIII] [Language: Spanish] On The Iron At Big Cloud, by Frank L. Packard 54111 Neiti de Taverney, by Alexandre Dumas, père 54110 [Subtitle: Historiallinen romaani Ludvig XV:n hovista] [Language: Finnish] Round the Fire Stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle 54109 Squire Arden; Volume 1 of 3, by Margaret Oliphant 54108 Historical Record of the Fourteenth or The BuckinghamshireRegiment 54107 of Foot: From Its Formation in 1685 to 1845, by Richard Cannon Neighbours on the Green; My Faithful Johnny, by Mrs. Oliphant 54106 The Swan of Vilamorta, by Emilia Pardo Bazán 54105 The Redemption Of Kenneth Galt, by Will N. Harben 54104 His Little World, by Samuel Merwin 54103 [Subtitle: The Story of Hunch Badeau] [Illustrator: Alonzo Kimball] The Whip Hand, by Samuel Merwin 54102 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Pine Country] Cowardice Court, by George Barr McCutcheon 54101 [Illustrator: Harrison Fisher] Wayfaring Men, by Edna Lyall 54100 [Subtitle: A Novel] Shot With Crimson, by George Barr McCutcheon 54099 [Illustrator: F. R. Gruger] The Light that Lies, by George Barr McCutcheon 54098 Black is White, by George Barr McCutcheon 54097 Olga Romanoff, by George Chetwynd Griffith 54096 [Illustrator: Fred T. Jane] Josef Balsamo, by Alexandre Dumas, père 54095 [Subtitle: Historiallinen romaani Ludvig XV:n hovista] [Language: Finnish] A Valiant Ignorance, Vol. 2 of 3, by Mary Angela Dickens 54094 A Valiant Ignorance, Vol. 1 of 3, by Mary Angela Dickens 54093 A Bundle of Letters From Over the Sea, by Louise B. Robinson 54092 All But Lost, Vol. 1 of 3, by G. A. Henty 54091 [Subtitle: A Novel] Bamboo, Considered as a Paper-making Material, by Thomas Routledge 54090 [Subtitle: With remarks upon its cultivation and treatment] La vie nomade et les routes d'Angleterre au 14e siècle, 54089 by Jean Jules Jusserand [Language: French] Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond, 54088 by Edward Chappell [Subtitle: Containing Some Account of the North-eastern Coast of America and of the Tribes Inhabiting That Remote Region]