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Old 10-02-2008, 11:30 PM   #21
Fredkc
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Default Re: if the internet died!!

Thanx for the kind words, Diane.
It's something I've felt both had a good use now, and in the future. who knows, eh?

I just did a quick inventory of the online book section. There are roughly:
420 books,
and their 240 illustrations,
in that section. It is roughly 90 megabytes. which, if you take roughly 4,000 bytes as the size of the avg. type-written page, yields some, 22,500 pages of text.

For something fun, Mark Twain wrote something called Adam's Diary, and theres always Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary.
Quote:
Examples:
ABDICATION
, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.
KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
You can go here, for things of a political/historical nature like:
  • Dec. Of Independence,
  • U.S, Constitution,
  • Federalist Papers, Anti-Fed Papers,
  • Minutes of the Constitutional Convention,
  • A small Collection of Thomas Jefferson's Writings,
  • Democracy In America
Again, Enjoy!
Fred
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