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  2. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.

  3. Hardtack - Wikipedia

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    The name is derived from "tack", the British sailor slang for food. The earliest use of the term recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1830. [3]It is known by other names including brewis (possibly a cognate with "brose"), cabin bread, pilot bread, sea biscuit, soda crackers, sea bread (as rations for sailors), ship's biscuit, and pejoratively as dog biscuits, molar breakers, sheet ...

  4. Hard Tack and Coffee - Wikipedia

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    Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888 , Hard Tack and Coffee quickly became a best seller, and is now considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran.

  5. The world’s oldest book just fetched $3.9 million in auction

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    The 104-page Crosby-Schøyen Codex from Egypt was written by a single scribe over 40 years, dating back to 250–350 AD.

  6. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

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    An injunction was issued by a US District Court in Nevada under 26 U.S.C. § 7408 against Irwin Schiff and associates Cynthia Neun and Lawrence Cohen against the sale of this book by those persons as the court found that the information it contains is fraudulent. [293] Operation Dark Heart (2010) – oop: Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer: 2010

  7. Oldest living person in US credits straight-edge life of no ...

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    She is currently the seventh oldest person in the world, and has 12 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, 49 great-great-grandchildren and three great-great-great-grandchildren.

  8. List of encyclopedias by date - Wikipedia

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    New American Cyclopaedia (1857–1863), 16 volumes, editors George Ripley and Charles A. Dana; American Cyclopaedia (1873–1876), the retitled New American Cyclopaedia; Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia (1876–1878), 4 volumes; editors Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard and Arnold Henry Guyot; Cyclopedia of Universal History (1880–1884 ...

  9. 8 of the Oldest Candy Bars in the World That You Can Still ...

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    3. Oh Henry! $7.99 at Walmart. Shop Now. Debuted: 1920 What’s inside: Peanuts, caramel, fudge You’ll find peanuts, caramel, and fudge inside an Oh Henry! bar, and for fans of simplicity like ...