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"Classic": a book which people praise and don't read.-- Mark Twain
The godfather of soul, James Brown is 67 years old today and Pete Seeger is 81.
I've added the BookNote A Short History of Hand Bookbinding to the Original BookNotes section.
Check this out: Po'Boy Long Way From Home, Sonny Chestain, slide guitar and vocal.
"Now What A Time". Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943. I'm into music of all kinds and I really dig the blues. This site has over 100 audio files of blues and gospel songs. It's an incredible collection. The Library of Congress does it again!
And, of course, if your into the blues, you can't miss this one. The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. A search under blues in the Lomax collection yields 85 blues audio files!
From the UTNE Reader, In the Shadow of the Giants, Endangered booksellers are struggling to master the art of survival, by Suzanne Mantell. Included are numerous links to independent online booksellers.
I love this website. GRAFICAObscura Collected Computer Graphics Hacks, Curated by Paul Haeberli. I keep coming back to it for inspiration. Bookmark it. Look at every page.
Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion from Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
A Compact History of the English Language.
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