History for Sale; Needs Work
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France is selling dozens of historic properties, using the proceeds to move government bureaucrats into less expensive properties and to help pay off the national debt.
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By Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 19--Here's one way to get rid of those old campaign lawn signs -- hawk them on eBay.
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COLE CITY HOLLOW, Tenn. -- Nearly two centuries after a flawed survey placed Georgia's northern border just short of the Tennessee River, some legislators are thirsting to set the record straight.
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By Donna Borak Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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A few shortcomings were left unsaid, while one was simply phrased poorly.
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Buy what you know? That's just half of the story.
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Parting with treasured books can be hard enough, but then there is the problem of what to do with them.
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History smells if it doesn't exactly stink. In recent days, as the family is away in Pakistan, I have been amassing old books.
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More overseas enterprise archaeology from an itinerant Fool.
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Historical fiction is a difficult genre to get right. Neglect research and facts at your peril, because someone is sure to accuse you of dilettantism.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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The project involves scanning books and other works from the Civil War and other eras that have until now been thought too brittle for handling.
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A new initiative seeks to improve old products.
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Thumb through the book - then buy a clean copy from Amazon
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Historic cemeteries, desperate for money to pay for badly needed restorations, are reaching out to the public in ever more unusual ways.