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  2. Solomon Schechter - Wikipedia

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    Solomon Schechter (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן הכהן שכטר ‎; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism.

  3. Harold Schechter - Wikipedia

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    Harold Schechter (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years. [ 1 ]

  4. The Sun (Golub and Pasachoff book) - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is a 2017 popular science book by Leon Golub and Jay Pasachoff. It describes the current scientific understanding of the structure of the Sun and its influence on Earth's processes. The book contains numerous illustrations, as well as tips on observing the Sun and related astronomical phenomena.

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  6. Severian (character) - Wikipedia

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    Severian is the narrator and main character of Gene Wolfe's four-volume science fiction series The Book of the New Sun, as well as its sequel, The Urth of the New Sun.He is a Journeyman of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence (a Guild of torturers) who is exiled after showing mercy to one of his clients.

  7. Clue (book series) - Wikipedia

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    The Clue series is a book series of 18 children's books published throughout the 1990s based on the board game Clue.The books are compilations of mini-mysteries that the reader must solve involving various crimes committed at the home of Reginald Boddy by six of his closest "friends".

  8. Closing a chapter: Costco set to end year-round book ... - AOL

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    Costco is closing the book on year-round sales of physical novels. The bulk retailer is looking to end constant book sales at 500 of its 600 stores across the U.S., according to reports .

  9. List of The 39 Clues characters - Wikipedia

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    It is revealed in Book 6 that he was almost killed by Robert Cahill Henderson/Bob Troppo. Lord Byron; Emperor Puyi was a child emperor and the last Emperor of China. In Book 8 it was revealed that he hid the clue, Silk on top of Mount Everest with the help of Tomas George Mallory. Beethoven; Alessandro Cagliostro; Henry Morton Stanley; Jane Austen