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YAHOO ANNOUNCES BOOK-SCANNING PROJECT
Yahoo has announced a plan to scan large collections of texts into an
online digital archive, though officials said their approach differs in
important ways from Google's similar venture, which has drawn
extensive criticism and legal action. Yahoo's initiative, called the
Open Content Alliance (OCA), represents a partnership with the
University of California, the University of Toronto, the Internet
Archive, and several other companies and organizations. Unlike
Google's project, they will not scan any copyrighted work without
explicit permission. Organizers of the project said the goal is to
digitize and make freely available as much of what is in the public
domain as possible. In addition, the archive will not be restricted to
users of Yahoo. David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president for search
content, said the texts will be online in such a way that other search
engines will be able to locate them. Much of the scanning for the OCA
will be done by the Internet Archive, which has already been working
with the University of Toronto on scanning several thousand books in
its collection.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 October 2005
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/10/2005100301t.htm
WIKIBOOKS ENTERS TEXTBOOK PUBLISHING FIELD
[Yet Another Entry Into The eBook Field]
The Wikimedia Foundation launched the Wikibooks project to create a
kindergarten-to-college curriculum of textbooks based on an open source
development model. Material written for the new texts can be short or
long and easily modified, and the resulting Wikibooks would be freely
licensed. The goal is to produce thousands of books and smaller entries
on a range of topics by employing a worldwide community of writers and
editors. Any reader or student could create a personalized book or edit
an existing title. Wikibooks currently contains more than 11,000
submissions from volunteers (professionals in many fields, college and
graduate students, and professors). The project is still in the early
stages and faces competitors such as Google's digital library project,
which has run into copyright issues.
ZDNet, 28 September 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5884291.html
FAB LABS ALLOW CREATION, NOT JUST CONSUMPTION
[Something In The Way Of A 3-D Project Gutenberg?]
With the help of host countries, MIT is setting up Fab Labs, or
fabrication laboratories, around the world. Fab Labs provide an
opportunity for individuals to use various technological means to build
things that solve local problems. For example, Haakon Karlsen, a
rancher who lives hundreds of miles north of the Artic Circle, used a
Fab Lab in Norway to devise radio collars for his sheep. The collars
help Karlsen locate his sheep in the conditions where he lives, and
they send information about whether the flock is moving, what the
temperature is, and other data he uses to care for the sheep. Neil
Gershenfeld, professor at MIT and director of the university's Center
for Bits and Atoms, said the labs take people out of the role of simply
being consumers of technology that is available and puts them in the
position of creating the technology they need. For each Fab Lab, MIT
pays for equipment, and the host country provides the location for the
lab. Officials in South Africa are currently working to introduce not
one but four Fab Labs in that country, starting with one just outside
Pretoria. Sushil Borde, who is directing the development of Fab Labs in
South Africa, said the country hopes the labs will open new avenues for
engineers and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into tangible products.
BBC, 27 September 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4276180.stm
LAMS FOUNDATION LAUNCHES COMMUNITY WEB SITE
The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) Foundation has announced
the launch of a new Web site that will allow what it calls "open source
teaching," in which educators can share and modify digital lesson
plans. The LAMS Community Web site is based on the .LRN open source
platform, developed at MIT. Using the LAMS Community Web site, teachers
can search through various subset communities, looking for sequences of
learning activities particular to their field. Available communities
will initially include developers, technical support, and education,
which will offer subcommunities for K-12, higher education and
training, and research and development. New communities can be added
later, such as a community focused on math teachers in the Boston area.
The Web site will allow teachers to share their own learning sequences,
access others' sequences, rate them, and discuss them. All of the
content will be used under Creative Commons licenses.
LAMS Foundation, 30 September 2005
http://www.lamsfoundation.org/news/lamscomm.html
[A Similar Project Across The Pond]
IRELAND AND U.K. TO COOPERATE ON E-LEARNING
Education officials in the United Kingdom and Ireland have signed an
agreement to work together in support of an initiative called the
National Digital Repository, which is designed to support higher
education e-learning. The repository, which started in January 2005, is
to be a collection of components of higher education courses, allowing
users to develop online courses in various fields by picking and
choosing from among those components. Components can include images,
multimedia clips, text, maps, and other elements that can support
online learning. The repository is currently funded by the Irish Higher
Education Authority (HEA) and the Department of Education and Science.
Under the agreement between the HEA and the United Kingdom's Joint
Information Services Committee, the two countries will cooperate "in
building a technology infrastructure that provides lifelong access to
programs of study for learners in a manner that is flexible and
convenient to their particular life circumstances," according to Tom
Boland, chief executive of the HEA.
Silicon Republic, 29 September 2005
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single5459
GOOGLE OFFERS TO UNWIRE SAN FRANCISCO
Google is one of more than a dozen organizations that have submitted
bids in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's call for a
citywide wireless Internet network. The network would provide free
Internet access to anyone in the city. Google finds itself flush with
more than $7 billion in cash after recent stock sales. Industry
observers speculated that setting up a municipal wireless network in
San Francisco could be the first step in a Google plan to establish
such a network nationwide, though the company said it currently has no
plans to expand beyond the Bay Area. Analysts said Google's interest
in facilitating increased Internet access directly serves the
company's goals of organizing the world's information. In addition,
providing Internet access to greater numbers of people means
potentially more visitors to Google's site, which would increase
advertising revenues.
Wired News, 1 October 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,69059,00.html
[Related Article NOT From Edupage]
*
San Francisco receives more than 24 Wi-Fi bids
Mayor calls free wireless 'a fundamental right'
"City officials said participants ranged from Cingular, the largest
U.S. wireless carrier, to Atlanta-based Internet service provider
EarthLink Inc. to San Francisco wireless broadband start-up Feeva Inc."
Reuters
*
DIGITAL MUSIC SALES SURGE
[If sales "declined by nearly 7 percent in value and 3.4 percent in units,"
that means that somehow the dollar value change in the last year was
double that of the amount of music sold. . .this doesn't compute.]
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
(IFPI), sales of online digital music more than tripled in the first
half of 2005, compared to the same period in 2004. Sales of legal music
downloads totaled $790 million (representing 6 percent of total music
sales worldwide), up from $220 million the year before. Most of the
gains were seen in the world's top five music markets: the United
States, Britain, Japan, Germany, and France. Sales of physical formats
declined by nearly 7 percent in value and 3.4 percent in units. The
IFPI said it will continue working to spur legal sales of online music
while limiting the illegal sharing of music. John Kennedy, chairman and
chief executive of the IFPI, said that "digital and physical piracy
remain a big threat to our business in many markets. Our industry's
priorities are to further grow this emerging digital-music business
while stepping up our efforts to protect it from copyright theft."
Wall Street Journal, 3 October 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112834107711958392.html
EOLAS RULING SWINGS BACK TO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued its final ruling in
favor of the University of California in its patent dispute with
Microsoft. At issue is a technology used for launching certain
applications in Web browsers. The technology was developed at the
University of California at San Francisco and licensed to a company
called Eolas Technologies. Eolas and the university had earlier won a
$521 million judgment against Microsoft for violating the patent in its
software, but that ruling was appealed on the grounds that the patent
was not valid. Despite a preliminary ruling in which the Patent and
Trademark Office indicated its leaning toward Microsoft's position on
the Eolas patent, the final ruling upholds all of the university's
claims. The ruling rejects the assertions of both Microsoft and the
World Wide Web Consortium that the patent relies on "prior art." The
case now returns to district court for trial.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 September 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/09/2005093001t.htm
MASSACHUSETTS PLAN WOULD PROVIDE LAPTOPS FOR ALL STUDENTS
The state of Massachusetts is considering a plan to provide a laptop
computer to every middle and senior high school student in the state.
The plan, offered by Governor Mitt Romney, includes other provisions,
such as adding 1,000 new science and math teachers. The nonprofit One
Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization was credited with the idea of
providing the laptops; in 2000, Maine began a program to equip all
seventh graders in that state with laptops. The initiative depends in
part on acquiring laptops for about $100 each, an idea put forth by
Nicholas Negroponte, founding chairman of MIT~Rs Media Laboratory.
Negroponte formed the OLPC to help provide such inexpensive computers
to children in developing nations. According to Negroponte, pencils are
"tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and
play, drawing, writing, and mathematics." Computers, he says, can be
seen the same way, though they are "far more powerful."
Federal Computer Week, 29 September 2005
http://www.fcw.com/article90958-09-29-05-Web
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.]
None of the major US television network news shows even mentioned
Yahoo's effort to form a coalition to compete with Google Print,
whose media blitz covered the television, radio and print news
last December 14th. Apparently "once bitten, twice shy" is the
rule even for the major media. Even the BBC barely mentioned it,
sandwiched into Tanya Beckett's business news segment, between the
major news segments of Katty Kay and Mike Embley.
*
None of the major media would announce the total deaths of Katrina
when the new, and supposedly final, numbers were released yesterday,
most likely because that number exceeded 1,000.
972 in Louisiana
221 in Mississippi
??? in Alabama
For a total that will probably reach about 1300
CBS, NBC, BBC, etc.
*
Judith Miller was finally released from her imprisonment this week,
after serving about three months for refusing to divulge her source
for an article she never wrote about the White House "outing" of CIA
covert agent Valerie Plame, wife of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV.
The incident was allegedly sparked by White House retaliation for
Ambassador Wilson's unwillingness to support President Bush's claims
of Weapons of Mass Destruction as per the now infamous "yellow cakes
of uranium" that apparently never existed. Now that she testified,
it appears this could cause trouble for White House insiders Karl Rove,
VP Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, as well as for President Bush.
Washington Post
New York Times
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
Many flood victims in St. Bernard Parish [New Orleans] were told by
federal officials they did not need flood insurance.
ABC News 10/04
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Callers to the federal map center were routed to a private
answering service in Tallahassee, Florida, when they called
to find out if they were susceptible to flooding in the New
Orleans area, and the calls were answered by people with no
expertise whatsoever on the subject. These people who have
now lost everything are "out of luck" as they "can't sue."
ABC News 10/04
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Texas and Florida will continue to get better hurricane
relief than Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, simply
because Texas and Florida have so much more money and so
many more electoral votes that put the Bush administrations
in the White House.
Meet The Press
and/or
Face The Nation
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Senator McCain bluntly declared that "things have not gone as we had
planned or expected, nor as we were told by you, General Myers."
As quoted in The New York Times on October 3, 2005
*
Ex-Chief of FEMA, Michael Brown, attacked Governor Blanco and other
local officials as the cause of problems related to Hurriana Katrina
in one of his first speeches after being re-hired by FEMA in his new
consulting position only a week after his resignation. Blanco was a
bit more politic about the name calling and refused to comment.
Lehrer News Hour
*
"In the future, computers will weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
"By the year 2000, all computers will weigh under half a ton."
[Popular Electronics, 1950][?]
"In the future, computers will weigh less than a ton."
Unknown, 1949 [Popular Mechanics, 1949][?]
"In the future, computers will weigh no more than a ton."
[Popular Science (1940)][?]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
The current cost of Katrina has passed 35 billion dollars.
Interesting that so much is reported by the foreign news
that is not reported by the US media.
[BBC]
*
INTERNET ADS TAKE OFF IN U.S.
According to numbers from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and
PricewaterhouseCoopers, online advertising revenues in the first half
of 2005 hit a new high of about $5.8 billion, an increase of 26 percent
over the first half of 2004. The percentage of total online ad revenues
earned by keyword-based search ads has held steady at 40 percent, but
income increased. The same holds true for display ads, which accounted
for 20 percent of total online ad revenue. The Internet Advertising
Revenue Report will be published in early October.
The Register, 28 September 2005
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/28/us_internet_advertising_soars/
*
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.
*
POEM OF THE WEEK
Joy is when you close your eyes
And see that the flowers of happy feelings are in bloom
A forest of bright colors and sweet scents
In which you wander careless and free
Joy is when you open your eyes
And see the mountains of doubt crumble and fall
Leaving behind the golden sand of sunny beaches
Where loves step together, holding hands
Joy is when the everlasting trees of your life experience
Share their wisdom with the singing birds
Who then tell it to your senses
And you grow.
Joy is when your action seeds are purposely planted
On fertile ground for future springlings of happy thoughts.
Joy is when you reach the white innocence of the clouds
Just by closing your eyes.
Your inner eye, the most truthful one,
Is now watching over your world.
Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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This week we added 45 new.
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Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton 130
[Updated edition of: etext94/ortho10.txt ]
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The Tale of Solomon Owl, by Arthur Scott Bailey 16663
[Illustrator: Harry L. Smith]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/6/16663 ]
[Files: 16663.txt; 16663-8.txt; 16663-h.htm; 16663-0.txt; 16663-pdf.pdf;
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Your Boys, by Gipsy Smith 16495
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16495 ]
[Files: 16495.txt; 16495-8.txt; 16495-h.htm; 16495-0.txt; 16495-pdf.pdf;
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Autobiography of St. Thrse of Lisieux, by Thrse Martin (of Lisieux) 16772
[Full title: The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une me): The]
[Autobiography of St. Thrse of Lisieux]
[Subtitle: With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thrse]
[Translator: Thomas Taylor]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/7/16772 ]
[Files: 16772.txt; 16772-8.txt]
Jacqueline of Golden River, by H. M. Egbert 16771
[Illustrator: Ralph Pallen Coleman]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/7/16771 ]
[Files: 16771.txt; 16771-8.txt; 16771-h.htm]
The Adventure of Two Dutch Dolls and a 'Golliwogg', by Bertha Upton 16770
[Illustrator: Florence K. Upton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/7/16770 ]
[Files: 16770.txt; 16770-h.htm]
Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton 16769
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16769 ]
[Files: 16769.txt; 16769-8.txt; 16769-0.txt; 16769-h.htm]
The History of Sumatra, by William Marsden 16768
[Subtitle: Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And
Manners Of The Native Inhabitants]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16768 ]
[Files: 16768.txt; 16768-8.txt; 16768-h.htm]
Half-hours with the Telescope, by Richard A. Proctor 16767
[Subtitle: Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a]
[Means of Amusement and Instruction.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16767 ]
[Files: 16767.txt; 16767-8.txt; 16767-h.htm]
All on the Irish Shore, by E. Somerville and Martin Ross 16766
[Subtitle: Irish Sketches]
[Illustrator: E. Somerville]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16766 ]
[Files: 16766.txt; 16766-8.txt; 16766-h.htm]
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8), by Procopius 16765
[Author AKA: Procopius of Caesarea (6th century)]
[Subtitle: The Vandalic War ]
[Tr.: H. B. Dewing]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16765 ]
[Files: 16765.txt; 16765-8.txt; 16765-h.htm; ]
History of the Wars, Books I and II (of 8), by Procopius 16764
[Author AKA: Procopius of Caesarea (6th century)]
[Subtitle: The Persian War]
[Tr.: H. B. Dewing]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16764 ]
[Files: 16764.txt; 16764-8.txt; 16764-h.htm; ]
"Say Fellows--", by Wade C. Smith 16763
[Subtitle: Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16763 ]
[Files: 16763.txt; 16763-h.htm; ]
Chronicles (2 of 6): England, Scotland & Ireland (6 of 12), Holinshed 16762
[Title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):
England (6 of 12): Richard the First]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16762 ]
[Files: 16762-8.txt; 16762-0.txt; 16762-h.htm]
Chronicles (2 of 6): England, Scotland & Ireland (5 of 12), Holinshed 16761
[Title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):
England (5 of 12): Henrie the Second]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16761 ]
[Files: 16761-8.txt; 16761-0.txt; 16761-h.htm]
Chronicles (2 of 6): England, Scotland & Ireland (4 of 12), Holinshed 16760
[Title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):
England (4 of 12): Stephan Earle Of Bullongne]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16760 ]
[Files: 16760-8.txt; 16760-0.txt; 16760-h.htm]
The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes, Thomas a Kempis 16759
[Tr.: J. P. Arthur]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16759 ]
[Files: 16759.txt; 16759-h.htm]
Le Salon des Refuss, by Fernand Desnoyers 16758
[Subtitle: Le Peinture en 1863]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16758 ]
[Files: 16758-8.txt; 16758-h.htm]
Life of John Milton, by Richard Garnett 16757
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16757 ]
[Files: 16757.txt; 16757-8.txt; 16757-h.htm]
The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair, by Laura Lee Hope 16756
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16756 ]
[Files: 16756.txt; 16756-h.htm]
Reis door Griekenland, by Anonymous 16755
[Subtitle: De Aarde en Haar Volken, 1887]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16755 ]
[Files: 16755-8.txt; 16755-h.htm]
Kuusten juurella, by Heikki Merilinen 16754
[Subtitle: Romaani]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16754 ]
[Files: 16754-8.txt]
The Noble Spanish Soldier, by Thomas Dekker 16753
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16753 ]
[Files: 16753-8.txt; ]
Caste, by W. A. Fraser 16752
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16752 ]
[Files: 16752.txt; 16752-8.txt]
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, by William Holmes McGuffey 16751
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16751 ]
[Files: 16751.txt; 16751-doc.doc; 16751-pdf.pdf]
The Colored Regulars in the United States Army, by T. G. Steward 16750
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/5/16750 ]
[Files: 16750.txt; 16750-8.txt; 16750-h.htm]
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6), Raphael Holinshed 16749
[Full title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):]
[England (3 of 12)]
[Subtitle: Henrie I.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16749 ]
[Files: 16749-8.txt; 16749-0.txt; 16749-h.htm]
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6), Raphael Holinshed 16748
[Full title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):]
[England (2 of 12)]
[Subtitle: William Rufus]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16748 ]
[Files: 16748.txt; 16748-8.txt; 16748-h.htm]
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs, by George M. Wrong 16747
[Subtitle: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16747 ]
[Files: 16747.txt; 16747-8.txt; 16747-h.htm]
Inquiries and Opinions, by Brander Matthews 16746
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16746 ]
[Files: 16746.txt; 16746-8.txt; 16746-h.htm]
Matthew Arnold, by G. W. E. Russell 16745
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16745 ]
[Files: 16745.txt; 16745-8.txt; 16745-h.htm]
Pratt's Practical Pointers, by Pratt Food Co 16744
[Title: Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16744 ]
[Files: 16744.txt; 16744-h.htm]
Aventures du capitaine Corcoran, by Alfred Assollant 16743
[Title: Aventures merveilleuses mais authentiques du capitaine Corcoran,
Premire Partie]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16743 ]
[Files: 16743-8.txt; 16743-h.htm]
Dan Merrithew, by Lawrence Perry 16742
[Illustrator: J. V. McFall]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16742 ]
[Files: 16742.txt; 16742-8.txt; 16742-h.htm]
Aunt Phillis's Cabin, by Mary H. Eastman 16741
[Subtitle: Or, Southern Life As It Is]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16741 ]
[Files: 16741.txt; 16741-8.txt; 16741-h.htm]
The Busie Body, by Susanna Centlivre 16740
[Commentator: Jess Byrd]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16740 ]
[Files: 16740.txt; 16740-8.txt; 16740-h.htm]
The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses, by Henry Drummond 16739
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16739 ]
[Files: 16739.txt; 16739-8.txt; 16739-h.htm]
Chronicles (2 of 6): England, Scotland & Ireland (1 of 12), Holinshed 16738
[Title: Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):
England (1 of 12), William the Conqueror]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16738 ]
[Files: 16738-8.txt; 16738-0.txt; 16738-h.htm]
International Language, by Walter J. Clark 16737
[Subtitle: Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and
Grammar]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16737 ]
[Files: 16737-8.txt; 16737-0.txt; 16737-h.htm]
Books and Culture, by Hamilton Wright Mabie 16736
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16736 ]
[Files: 16736.txt; 16736-8.txt; 16736-h.htm]
Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems, by James Avis Bartley 16735
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16735 ]
[Files: 16735.txt; 16735-8.txt; 16735-h.htm]
Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy 16734
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16734 ]
[Files: 16734.txt; 16734-8.txt; 16734-h.htm]
Montlivet, by Alice Prescott Smith 16733
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16733 ]
[Files: 16733.txt; 16733-8.txt; ]
Familiar Quotations, ed. by John Bartlett 16732
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16732 ]
[Files: 16732.txt; 16732-8.txt; 16732-h.htm]
The Garden of the Plynck, by Karle Wilson Baker 16731
[Illustrator: Florence Minard]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16731 ]
[Files: 16731.txt; 16723-pdf.pdf]
Mike Fletcher, by George Moore (George Augustus Moore) 16730
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/3/16730 ]
[Files: 16730.txt; 16730-8.txt; ]
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, by Thomas Henry Huxley 16729
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16729 ]
[Files: 16729.txt; 16729-8.txt; 16729-h.htm; ]
Vuonna 2000, by Edward Bellamy 16694
[Subtitle: Katsaus vuoteen 1887]
[Translator: J. K. Kari]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16694 ]
[Files: 16694-8.txt; 16694-h.htm]
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