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Sara Yorke Stevenson (February 19, 1847 – November 14, 1921) was an American archaeologist specializing in Egyptology, one of the founders of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, suffragist and women's rights activist, and a columnist for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Works by Sarah Josepha Hale at Project Gutenberg; Works by Sarah Josepha Hale at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Sarah Hale: The Mother of Thanksgiving Audio slide show: Historian Anne Blue Wills tells the story of Sarah Hale on "BackStory with the American History Guys" Lehigh.edu, Etext Library: Sarah Josepha Hale; Woman Writers: Sarah ...
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
Fanny Fern (born Sara Payson Willis; July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Her popularity has been attributed to a conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers.
Michael Stern Hart (March 8, 1947 – September 6, 2011) [1] was an American author, best known as the inventor of the e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet.
The library group said Wednesday that it has begun to interpret the columns of text. One of the first words to be translated was the ancient Greek διατροπή, meaning “disgust,” which ...
Sara Jeannette Duncan (22 December 1861 – 22 July 1922) was a Canadian author and journalist, who also published as Mrs. Everard Cotes (her married name) and Garth Grafton among other names. First trained as a teacher in a normal school , she took to poetry early in life and after a brief teaching period worked as a travel writer for Canadian ...
Here's a list of the February holidays and observances to know about in 2025. Valentine's Day, National Golden Retriever Day, and more make it on this list.