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  2. Florida Book Award - Wikipedia

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    The Florida Book Awards are a set of annual statewide literary awards that recognize Floridian authors and books about Florida published in the previous year. [1] Established in 2006, the awards are administered by the Florida State University Libraries, with co-sponsors including the Florida Humanities Council, Florida Center for the Book, the ...

  3. List of literary awards - Wikipedia

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    Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's and teen literature – since 1968 Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA) – since 1970 Tir na n-Og Awards (Wales, UK) – since 1976

  4. Hatpin - Wikipedia

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    The hatpin was invented to hold wimples and veils in place, and was handmade. In Britain, demand eventually outgrew the number that could be supplied by hand-making, and they began to be imported from France. In 1832 a machine was invented in America which could mass-produce the pins, and they became much more affordable. During the 1880s ...

  5. Planer (metalworking) - Wikipedia

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    A typical planer A planer is a type of metalworking machine tool that uses linear relative motion between the workpiece and a single-point cutting tool to cut the work piece. [ 1 ] A planer is similar to a shaper , but larger, and with workpiece moving, whereas in a shaper the cutting tool moves.

  6. Florida literature - Wikipedia

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    The Key West Literary Seminar began in 1983, and the Miami Book Fair in 1984. The Florida Book Awards for "best Florida literature" began in 2006, administered by Florida State University Libraries; recent nonfiction awardees include Susan Cerulean, Jack E. Davis, Gilbert King, Henry Knight, William McKeen, and Margaret Ross Tolbert. [8]

  7. William Bullock (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    In his youth, he worked with his brother as a machinist and iron-founder. His fascination with books led him to acquire much knowledge of mechanics. At age 21, he was running his own machinery shop in Savannah, Georgia. At this time, Bullock invented a shingle-cutting machine, but his business went broke when he was unable to market it.

  8. Philip Don Estridge - Wikipedia

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    In 1999, he was identified in CIO magazine as one of the people who "invented the enterprise". The Don Estridge High-Tech Middle School — formerly IBM Facility Building 051 — in Boca Raton, Florida, is named after him, and received Estridge's IBM 5150 [ 5 ] [ 6 ] personal computers from his family on the occasion of its dedication in 2004.

  9. InstaBook - Wikipedia

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    It was founded in 1997, and is located in Gainesville, Florida. [1] [2] ... InstaBook installed the first book on demand equipment in a bookstore in Canada in 2001.