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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hart)
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:43:40 -0400
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The Notebooks Of Leonardo da Vinci
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10 1990 The King James Bible
100 1994 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
1000 1997 Dante's Divine Comedy, In Italian
2000 1999 Don Quixote, In Spanish
3000 2000 A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs V3 by Proust, In French
4000 2001 The Complete Works of "The French Immortals"], In English
5000 2002 The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, In English
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