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Encyclopedias and dictionaries1929

The New Century Book of Facts

A Handbook of Ready Reference, Embracing Language, Grammar, History, Mathematics, Geography, Atlas, Kindergarten, Physiology, Literature, Science, Government, Law, Economics, Biography, Fine Arts

Carroll Davidson Wright, Henry Adelbert White

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Pennsylvania1991

The Farabaughs of Cambria County

Anthony Bentivegna

Martinm Ferenbacher of Kappel am Rhein, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany, was born about 1668 and died in 1748. He had five great-grandchildren that left Kappel and settled in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. They were named Augustin, Michael, Johann Gerg, Matthias, and Viktoria and they arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1830's. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere. Includes some genealogies of spouses.

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Computers2026-11-06

OOCC: Object-Oriented Cognition and Continuity

The Unified Intersection — A Framework for Human–AI Collaboration and Recoverable Cognition

Benjamin Gelhaus

What if artificial intelligence could recover not just what you discussed, but how you arrived at your understanding—and continue working without starting over? OOCC: Object-Oriented Cognition and Continuity presents an independent research investigation into a platform-independent architecture for persistent, recoverable human–AI collaboration. Rather than replacing the memory features already available in AI platforms, OOCC is designed to complement and extend them through structured external continuity, source verification, role-specific operating contracts, and independently recoverable records. The architecture is designed to be adaptable across AI providers, applications, devices, and storage systems. It does not depend conceptually on any single AI model or proprietary memory implementation. Actual integration capabilities depend on the tools, permissions, and interfaces each platform supports. Developed through extensive independent research and practical experimentation, OOCC explores: - Cross-platform continuity: Preserving working context across sessions, models, tools, and environments. - Complementary memory architecture: Connecting existing AI memory capabilities with externally verifiable records and recovery procedures. - Modular cognition and retrieval: Interconnected indexes, original-source histories, corrections, relationships, and knowledge intersections. - Specialized AI collaboration: Role-directed builders, researchers, crawlers, and other contributors operating through recoverable contracts. - Bidirectional communication: Structured, independently recorded message exchanges between collaborating AI workers. - Human-centered learning: Studying how people and AI develop understanding, recognize connections, and transfer knowledge across domains. - Evidence-based engineering: Documenting successful experiments alongside failures, limitations, corrections, and proposed improvements. OOCC investigates how continuity can become a property of the broader working architecture rather than depending entirely on the memory of an individual AI session. The research includes practical implementations, longitudinal observations, architectural proposals, and experimental results, with clear distinctions between verified capabilities and those requiring further validation. Publication status: Independent research monograph. This work is not presented as a peer-reviewed university thesis or a clinically validated intervention. Author: Benjamin Gelhaus, independent researcher. Free public research publications and related work: https://independent.academia.edu/BenG197

The Book World cover
History2016-05-18

The Book World

Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940

Nicola Louise Wilson

British literature underwent profound changes in the period 1900-1940. What role did audiences and channels of book distribution play in this? In this wide-ranging collection, the influence of publishers, distributors, librarians and readers come to the foreground to open up new perspectives on literature and print culture. Rooted in original archival research, chapters include studies of the engagement of canonical writers and bestsellers with the literary marketplace; the influence of international and mobile audiences; publishing practices involving genre, promotion, and censorship; and the significance of spaces of reading including bookshops, circulating libraries and on-board passenger ships. Through a series of detailed case-studies that focus on under-explored aspects of distribution and readership, the contributors open up new perspectives on literature and the British book trade.

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History2018-06-12

McCarthyism in the Suburbs

Quakers, Communists, and the Children's Librarian

Allison Hepler

In 1953, Mary Knowles was fired as a branch librarian for the Morrill Memorial Library, a public library in Norwood, Massachusetts. She had been called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and, when asked if she’d ever been a member of the Communist Party, she declined to answer, relying on her Fifth Amendment rights. She was fired less than three weeks later. Knowles thought she was unlikely to find a position as a librarian again and left the area. She found a job at a small library outside Philadelphia, where anticommunists who learned of her past tried to create public support for a Loyalty Oath, resulting in the loss of public funding for the library. The resulting controversy eventually brought national attention to the local Quakers who had hired Knowles, the FBI was asked to investigate, Knowles was convicted of contempt of Congress, and the Quakers were subpoenaed and testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Knowles, however, was never fired from this position, retiring from the library in 1979. This book illustrates the impact of McCarthyism on small towns and “ordinary” people and local officials, some of whom abided by the standards of the era. There were others however, who challenged the status quo. Their actions provide readers with models of behavior often at odds with what has been thought of as the 1950s. People who spoke up risked families and jobs. At the same time, anticommunists also tapped into citizens’ fears of the cold war, not just of Communists but of a broad swath of people who promoted social justice and equality. The resulting interactions as described in this book offer important lessons on how fear and bravery operate local communities against the backdrop of (and involvement with) national events.

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Social Science2014-03-26

The Chicano Movement

Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century

Mario T. Garcia

The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement expanded to urban areas throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, as a generation of self-proclaimed Chicanos fought to empower their communities. Recently, a new generation of historians has produced an explosion of interesting work on the Movement. The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century collects the various strands of this research into one readable collection, exploring the contours of the Movement while disputing the idea of it being one monolithic group. Bringing the story up through the 1980s, The Chicano Movement introduces students to the impact of the Movement, and enables them to expand their understanding of what it means to be an activist, a Chicano, and an American.

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Maritime anthropology2008

Memory and Knowledge of the Sea in Southeast Asia

Danny Tze-Ken Wong

In the Southeast Asian region, various communities have been closely associated with the sea. Many have, over the years, acquired special memory and, sometimes, intimate knowledge of the sea. Even as much of this information and knowledge was passed from generation to generation, it provided maritime communities with a sense of identity and social cohesiveness as well as a sense of belonging. It was in this light that the papers in this volume set out to investigate the human association with the sea in Southeast Asia through the interrogation of memory and knowledge preserved through various genres including oral tradition, travellers' tales and diaries, official accounts as well as rituals.

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