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  2. Logbook - Wikipedia

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    A logbook (or log book) is a record used to record states, events, or conditions applicable to complex machines or the personnel who operate them. Logbooks are commonly associated with the operation of aircraft, nuclear plants, particle accelerators, and ships (among other applications).

  3. Logbook (nautical) - Wikipedia

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    A logbook (a ship's logs or simply log) is a record of important events in the management, operation, and navigation of a ship. It is essential to traditional navigation, and must be filled in at least daily. The term originally referred to a book for recording readings from the chip log that was used to estimate a ship's speed through the ...

  4. Mail order - Wikipedia

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    In 1845, Tiffany's Blue Book was the first mail-order catalogue in the United States. [14] [15] In 1872, Aaron Montgomery Ward of Chicago produced a mail-order catalogue for his Montgomery Ward mail order business. [16]

  5. By the numbers: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - AOL

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    On Friday morning, the world learned of the passing of Harper Lee, the beloved author of one of the most influential books in American history, To Kill a Mockingbird. One of two books that Lee had ...

  6. Christopher Columbus's journal - Wikipedia

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    The whereabouts of the original have been unknown since 1504. The copy descended to Columbus's grandson, Luis, who is thought to have sold it in order to fund his dissipated lifestyle. It too is now lost. [4] The only surviving version of the journal is an abstract written by Bartolomé de las Casas in preparation for his work Historia de las ...

  7. Inventor's notebook - Wikipedia

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    The need for an inventor's notebook will diminish in the future as the United States is progressively implementing a first-to-file system pursuant to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. It has been said that first-to-file eliminates a troubling source of litigation, particularly for individual inventors who may lack the processes and legal ...

  8. A History of the Book in America - Wikipedia

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    A History of the Book in America is a five-volume series of scholarly books of essays published 2000–2010 by the University of North Carolina Press, and edited by David D. Hall. [1] Topics include printing, publishing, book selling, reading, and other aspects of print culture in colonial America and the United States.

  9. 3 questions for Patricia McCormick, whose book 'Sold' has ...

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    It really short-circuits kids’ ability to be empathetic and altruistic. 3. In 2006, Sold was a National Book Award finalist for Young People’s Literature. Then it became one of the most banned ...