Will TV oust Books?ETRC Presentation,Cuzminih Irina,May 2009

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Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) was the first person to explore Antarctica extensively by landCaptain Scott in the Arctic in 1911Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

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. This is a list of the top 10 fictional books of all time .Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Middlemarch by George Eliot

Books Trivia: Historythe earliest mechanically printed full-length book is the Gutenberg Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany, around 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg. There are five complete, intact copies in the United States.

Book Trivia: PersonJoanne Kathleen Rowling Rowling's fortune now makes her Britain's wealthiest woman in showbiz – and she sits 11 places above Queen Elizabeth II

Book Trivia: FilmThe Book and the Rose (2001): Tagline: In 1942, one letter can change your life. Plot Outline: A hunky young math teacher comes across a first edition of Anna Karenina and falls in love with the previous owner based on her extensive scribbling in the margin.

Book Trivia: NumbersThe most overdue library book was returned after 288 years! It was borrowed from a British university library in 1668 and was found elsewhere centuries later. The book was returned but no fine was charged!British "head-balancer" John Evans once balanced a staggering 62 books on his head, weighing a total of 217 lb.In 1991, Millie, US President George Bush's dog, earned $900,000 from her autobiography Millile's Book, an "under the table look at life in the Bush family". President Bush's own biography earned only $2,700.

Books Trivia: ThingDomesday Book, was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was similar to a census by a government of today. He needed information about the country he had just conquered so he could administer it.

Books Trivia: RecordSmallest Printed Book: The smallest ever printed book measures just 0.9 x 0.9 mm and is an edition of Chameleon by the Russian author Anton Chekhov. The book was made and published by AnatoliyKonenko of Omsk, Siberia, Russia, in 1996. The book consists of 30 pages, has three color illustrations, and 11 lines of text to a page. The book is printed in a limited edition of 100 copies, half in English, half in Russian. It is bound in gold, silver and leather and sewn in silk. Each copy retails for $500.

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