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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
LEGAL DOWNLOADS SURGE AFTER CHRISTMAS
[Likely a result of the 14 million iPods sold in the last quarter]
Sales of music tracks online surged over the holidays, indicating what
might be new baseline levels for the market. During the Christmas week,
9.5 million tracks were downloaded from legal online music services, a
new record for single-week sales. The following week, that number
jumped to nearly 20 million tracks, triple the number sold during the
same week a year earlier. Analysts attribute much of the gain to the
ballooning number of portable MP3 players in the hands of consumers and
to strong sales of gift cards. For the year, legal downloads rose 147
percent to 142.6 million. Although a drop always follows the holiday
spike, analysts said the holiday numbers could indicate a market that
will grow to perhaps 750 million or 1 billion tracks in 2006. Such
numbers still pale compared to downloads on P2P services, which are
estimated at 250 million per week, but experts say the upswing in legal
downloads signals a changing tide for online music.
CNET, 8 January 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6023769.html
US-VISIT WANTS ALL 10 FINGERS PRINTED
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have announced a
plan to begin requiring visitors to the United States to have all 10 of
their fingers to be printed to be admitted to the country. Currently,
the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT)
program requires prints of two fingers; the change to 10 will
reportedly increase both security and privacy and will decrease the
number of visitors who must undergo a second inspection to enter or
leave the country. DHS said biometric technology such as fingerprinting
is already reliable, but the agency is working with technology vendors
to develop products that are more accurate, faster, and more mobile.
Federal Computer Week, 5 January 2006
http://www.fcw.com/article91877-01-05-06-Web
GOVERNMENT KEEPING TABS WHEN IT SHOULDN'T
Despite a federal directive forbidding the use of Web-tracking
technologies for federal agencies, recent reports have shown that the
majority of agencies do in fact employ permanent cookies or other tools
that track users. The technologies can be used to identify repeat
visitors to federal Web sites and sometimes to track users' surfing on
nongovernmental sites. Last week, the Associated Press found that the
National Security Agency was using permanent cookies (temporary cookies
are allowed), a practice it has since discontinued. Separately,
reporters at CNET News.com looked at the Web sites of all agencies
listed in the U.S. Government Manual and evaluated what tracking tools
they were using. Results showed dozens of agencies using tools that
appear to contravene the directive, including sites for the military,
cabinet departments, and election commissions. When contacted about the
tracking tools, officials at many agencies reportedly said they were
unaware that their sites used such technologies. Peter Swire, law
professor at Ohio State University, who participated in the drafting of
an earlier Web-tracking policy for the Clinton administration, said,
"It's evidence that privacy is not being taken seriously."
"It's evidence that privacy is not being taken seriously."
CNET, 5 January 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6018702.html
MICROSOFT RELEASES WMF PATCH EARLY
Responding to concerns that the recently disclosed Windows Meta File
(WMF) vulnerability presented serious risk, Microsoft has released a
patch ahead of the company's monthly patch release date. Microsoft
said that testing of the patch was completed early and that there was
"strong customer sentiment that the release should be made available as
soon as possible." Some security experts, warning of the threat posed
by the flaw, had even encouraged users to install a third-party patch
developed by a European programmer. The patch is for Windows 2000,
Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003; although Microsoft had earlier
said the vulnerability also affected Windows 98 and Windows ME, the
company now says those operating systems are not affected by the flaw.
With the release, Microsoft acknowledged that the risk to unpatched
systems is critical, though it said data indicated that the infection
rate from attacks that exploit the weakness was low to moderate so far.
Some security experts offered a different characterization of the
situation, saying they have identified thousands of Web sites that
exploit the flaw.
ZDNet, 5 January 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6020070.html
[as a result of]
USERS SWEAT BULLETS WAITING FOR WMF PATCH
Security experts are warning about the danger of a currently unpatched
vulnerability in all current versions of the Windows operating system,
but Microsoft has said the patch won't be released until January 10,
its next scheduled patch release date. Sam Curry of Computer Associates
International said, "This vulnerability is rising in popularity among
hackers, and it is simple to exploit." Others estimate that more than
one million computers have already been infected worldwide, noting that
attacks have taken the form of malicious Web sites, Trojan horses, and
instant messaging worms. The flaw, which affects how Windows handles
Windows Meta File (WMF) images, is especially dangerous because users
need only view an image designed to take advantage of the vulnerability
to have their computers infected. Despite the calls for an immediate
patch, Microsoft, which adopted a schedule of monthly patch updates,
has said the fix for the current bug will not be released until the
next scheduled group of patches. In the meantime, Microsoft is warning
users to be careful about what sites they visit. Most Internet users,
however, do not have a level of awareness of such security concerns to
protect themselves, according to Stacey Quandt, an analyst with the
Aberdeen Group.
ZDNet, 3 January 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6016747.html
EEF SEEKS PROTECTION FOR COMPUTER RESEARCHERS
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called on Sony EMI to
pledge not to pursue prosecution of computer researchers who
investigate the security of the company's products. Last fall, the
company was caught in a public outcry over technology included in music
CDs. The technology installed itself on users' computers and scanned
them for potentially illegal activities. The company has removed those
tools from CDs, but security researchers believe they have reason to
reverse engineer copy protections on EMI CDs, a practice which would
violate not only the Digital Millennium Copyright Act but also EMI's
end user license agreement. Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney
with EFF, said, "When it comes to computer security, it pays to have as many
independent experts kick the tires as possible, and that can only happen
if EMI assures those experts that they won't be sued for their trouble." You have been reading excerpts from Edupage:
Internet News, 5 January 2006 If you have questions or comments about Edupage,
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3575441 send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu
SPAMMER HIT WITH $11.2 BILLION FINE
A court has slapped a Florida spammer with an $11.2 billion fine,
setting a new precedent for fines against spammers, though the ruling
is unlikely to have much effect on the volume of spam. Internet service
provider CIS Internet Services, which provides Internet service to
parts of Iowa and Illinois, had sued James McCalla for sending more
than 28 million e-mail solicitations that fraudulently used the CIS
domain as the return address. In addition to the fine, McCalla is
forbidden from accessing the Internet for three years. Robert Kramer
III, owner of CIS, welcomed the ruling, calling it the "economic death
penalty," though he acknowledged that he does not expect to receive any
of the money awarded. John Mozena, co-founder and vice president of the
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, said this and other
rulings against spammers have not had a significant effect on the total
volume of spam, which he estimated continues to be about two-thirds of
all e-mail traffic. What is needed, he argued, rather than current
laws, which only forbid deceptive or fraudulent spam, is a prohibition
against all spam.
Wired News, 5 January 2006
MICROSOFT AGREES TO CLOSE CHINESE BLOGGER'S SITE
Following a formal request from Chinese officials, Microsoft has shut
down the blog of a high-profile Chinese journalist. China is well known
for censoring public speech it considers critical of the government,
and Microsoft's actions are not the first in which non-Chinese
companies have complied with Chinese authorities. Officials from
Microsoft noted that if their services are to be available in China,
the company must comply with local laws. As Brooke Richardson, a group
product manager for MSN said, "We think it's better to be there with
our services than not be there." Last year Yahoo was faulted by some
for cooperating with Chinese officials, and it too stated then that a
requirement of continuing operation in the country is to conform to
local laws and regulations. Rebecca MacKinnon, a fellow at the Berkman
Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, expressed
concerns on her blog about Microsoft's action. "Can we be sure," she
said, "they won't do the same thing in response to potentially illegal
demands by an overzealous government agency in our own country?"
New York Times, 6 January 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/technology/06blog.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.
Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its
electoral votes to the president next year."
Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell [Maker of voting
machines that leave no paper trail for recounts.]
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
This is going to be big year for investigations
of United States government operations.
Tom Delay, now has permanently resigned as the
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Scooter Libby is under indictment.
[Top White House Procurement Officer]
Jack Abramoff has pled guilty, gateway to more.
Michael Scanlon has pled guilty, gateway to more.
[Former Abramoff partner and Delay aide]
Russ Tice and James Risen giving information about
possible millions of illegal NSA wiretaps, not just
the select few admitted to by President Bush.
ABC Nightly News, 01/10/06
News out about Project Echelon to listen to ATMs,
computers, etc., from half a mile away, and other
eavesdropping projects that can record conversations
through a foot or two of solid concrete. [DARPA =
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the same
people who brought you the Internet, nee DARPANet]
But Judge Alito's listing of his membership in the
Princeton CAP organization as one of his three top
choices for his resume won't make any difference.
[CAP = Concerned Alumni of Princeton, ultra-conservative
campus group dedicated to returning Princeton to the days
when women and blacks were not allowed into colleges.
A critic of CAP was dropped from the Alito witness list
on 01/07/06 before any testimony could be given.]
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China won't take strong action against Iran nuclear program
because China just made a deal to buy lots of Iranian oil
[Economic Warfare]
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Former NSA official Russell Tice wants to testify
before Congress, but the White House is blocking
his testimony on the grounds that Congress does
not have high enough classified clearance.
"I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful
and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an
intelligence officer with the National Security Agency
and with the Defense Intelligence Agency."
December 16, 2004 The same day The New York Times
broke the story of wiretaps without warrants from
the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.
[FISA court]
Washington Times, New York Times, ABC Nightly News
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
90% of cars do not achieve their sticker ad mileage.
ABC Nightly News, 01/10/06
*
14 million iPods were sold in the last quarter of 2005,
one of the biggest holiday hits.
Compare to 1 1/4 million Apple computers in same period.
Apple has now sold 42 million iPods, 1/3 of them in the
last quarter. . .Wow!
iTunes is coming up on 1 billion total sales.
83% of the total online music figures.
Washington post
[Now that Apple is switching from Motorola chips to Intel,
perhaps they can finally get more than 5% share in computers.]
*
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Subject: [gweekly] Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings, by Mary F. Sandars 9548
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The Voyages of Captain Scott, by Charles Turley 6721
[Subtitle: Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and
'Scott's Last Expedition'
[Updated edition of: etext04/vscot10.txt]
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Victory, by Joseph Conrad 6378
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Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad 5658
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Under Western Eyes, by Joseph Conrad 2480
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[Files: 2480.txt; 2480-h.htm]
A Set of Six, by Joseph Conrad 2305
Contents:
Gaspar Ruiz
The Informer
The Brute
An Anarchist
The Duel
Il Conde
[Updated edition of: etext00/seto610.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/2305 ]
[Files: 2305.txt; 2305-h.htm]
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, by Joseph Conrad 2021
[Updated edition of: etext00/nstrm10.txt]
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[Files: 2021.txt; 2021-h.htm]
The Rescue, by Joseph Conrad 1712
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Some Reminiscences, by Joseph Conrad 1316
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Tales of Unrest, by Joseph Conrad 1202
Contents
Karain: A Memory
The Idiots
An Outpost Of Progress
The Return
The Lagoon
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Typhoon, by Joseph Conrad 1142
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A Personal Record, by Joseph Conrad 687
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[Files: 687.txt; 687-h.htm]
An Outcast of the Islands, by Joseph Conrad 638
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End of the Tether, by Joseph Conrad 527
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[Files: 527.txt; 527-h.htm]
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad 526
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[Updated edition of: etext96/hdark12a.txt]
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Youth, by Joseph Conrad 525
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Amy Foster, by Joseph Conrad 495
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To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad 494
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Falk, by Joseph Conrad 493
[Updated edition of: etext96/falk10.txt]
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The Shadow Line, by Joseph Conrad 451
[Subtitle: A Confession]
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[Files: 451.txt; 451-h.htm]
The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad 220
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Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad 219
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The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope 95
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The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates, by Xenophon 17490
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Tr.: Edward Bysshe]
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Les misrables Tome I, by Victor Hugo 17489
[Subtitle: Fantine]
[Language: French]
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The Repair Of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891, by Cosmos Mindeleff 17488
[Subtitle: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-94,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 315-348]
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Casa Grande Ruin, by Cosmos Mindeleff 17487
[Subtitle: Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318]
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Lukemisia lapsille 8, by Zacharias Topelius 17486
[Language: Finnish]
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History of Loudoun County, by James W. Head 17485
[Title: History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County,
Virginia]
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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday, by Henry M. Brooks 17483
[Subtitle: Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem,
Massachusetts]
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La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando, by Lewis Carroll 17482
[Illustrator: Brinsley Le Fanu]
[Translator: E. L. Kearney]
[Language: Esperanto]
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The Parts Men Play, by Arthur Beverley Baxter 17481
[Foreward by Lord Beaverbrook]
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The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth, by Lewis H. Berens 17480
[Subtitle: As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the
Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer]
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Ang Mahusay na Paraan, by Samuel Auguste David Tissot 17479
[Title: Ang Mahusay na Paraan nang Pag-Gamot sa manga Maysaquit]
[Translator: Fr. Manuel Blanco]
[Language: Tagalog]
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Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers, by Singleton 17478
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The Lobster Fishery of Maine, by John N. Cobb 17475
[Subtitle: Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19,
Pages 241-265, 1899]
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How to Listen to Music, 7th ed., by Henry Edward Krehbiel 17474
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Przyjaciel Dziatek, by K. Wachtel 17473
[Subtitle: Wierszyki dla -- Dziatwy Polskiej w Ameryce]
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Yorkshire Ditties, First Series, by John Hartley 17472
[Subtitle: To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour]
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Punch, Vol. 152, February 14, 1917, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 17471
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Berry And Co., by Dornford Yates 17469
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Relikwien uit onzen Heldentijd, by Anonymous 17468
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[Language: Dutch]
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St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12, by Various 17466
[Title: St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5,
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45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to
this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a
possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I
presume this is in addition to previous adjustments.
Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures,
perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time
between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth.
In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this
normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found
on the subject of the current Special Census.
If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but
rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it
is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this
might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen
300 million go by some time ago.
For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm
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Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765, by J. E. Heeres 17450
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The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots, by David Rorie 17448
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Pikakuvia 1867 katovuodesta ja sen seurauksista, by Pietari Paivrainta 17447
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Bearslayer, by Andrejs Pumpurs 17445C
[Subtitle: A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English
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General Scott, by General Marcus J. Wright 17444
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Un faccioso mas y algunos frailes menos, by Benito Perez Galdos 17443
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The Guinea Stamp, by Annie S. Swan (AKA: Mrs. Burnett-Smith) 17442
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Kasaysayan ng Katotohanang Buhay, by Cleto R. Ignacio 17441
[Title: Kasaysayan ng Katotohanang Buhay ng Haring Clodeveo at
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[Language: Tagalog]
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Amadigi di Gaula, by Nicola Francesco Haym 17440
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[Language: Italian and English]
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Mother's Remedies, by T. J. Ritter 17439
[Subtitle: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remidies from Mothers
of the United States and Canada (1910)]
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Health and Education, by Charles Kingsley 17437
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The Queen's Cup, by G. A. Henty 17436
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The Days of Mohammed, by Anna May Wilson 17435
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The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood, by Arthur Griffiths 17434
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Arkansas Governors and United States Senators, by John L. Ferguson 17433
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Van Peking naar Parijs per auto, by Luigi Barzini and Scipione Borghese 17432
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1908]
[Language: Dutch]
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Korte Arabesken, by Louis Couperus 17431
[Subtitle: Bbert le Boucher en Andr le Pcheur]
[Language: Dutch]
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Morsamor, by Juan Valera 17430
[Subtitle: peregrinaciones heroicas y lances de amor y fortuna de
Miguel de Zuheros y Tiburcio de Simahonda]
[Language: Spanish]
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The Story of Dago, by Annie Fellows-Johnston 17429
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Pembroke, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 17428
[Subtitle: A Novel]
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President Wilson's Addresses, by Woodrow Wilson 17427
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Audio: The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum 17426C
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La Falo de Usxero-Domo, by Edgar Allan Poe 17425C
[Subtitle: The Fall of the House of Usher]
[Translator: Edwin Grobe]
[Language: Esperanto]
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Eternal Father, Strong to Save, by John Bacchus Dykes 17424
[Subtitle: a.k.a., Navy Hymn]
[Editor: Rick Davis, Arranger]
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Theme from Mozart's Piano Sonata in A major, K.331, by Mozart 17423
[Subtitle: Arranged for Solo Guitar]
[Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
[Editor: Rick Davis, Arranger]
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Fine Knacks for Ladies, by John Dowland 17422
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Emperor Quartet op.76 no.3., 2nd movement, by Franz Joseph Haydn 17421
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Journal des Goncourt (Deuxieme serie, deuxieme volume), by Goncourt 17420
[Subtitle: Mmoires de la vie littraire]
[Author: Edmond de Goncourt]
[Language: French]
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Bouddha, by Jules Claretie 17419
[Language: French]
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The Black Pearl, by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow 17418
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What Prohibition Has Done to America, by Fabian Franklin 17417
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A Critical Examination of Socialism, by William Hurrell Mallock 17416
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Money Island, by Andrew Jackson Howell, Jr. 17415
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The Blood Ship, by Norman Springer 17414
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Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude, by Jakob Wassermann 17413
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The Art of War, by Sun Tzu [Tr. by Lionel Giles] 17405
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