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Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
800 million [7] English General fiction, romance 179 American: Harold Robbins: 750 million [8] 750 million [9] English Adventure: 23 American Georges Simenon: 500 million [10] 700 million [11] French: Detectives, Maigret, romans durs 570 Belgian: Jk Rowling 600 million [12] 650 million [13] English Harry Potter among other works 22 British ...
2.859 million: 80 years: 1907–1987: 76 volumes. [18] 1987 and 1988 Guinness Book of World Records has different dates. Henry David Thoreau: 2 million: 25 years: 1837–1861: Over 2 million words in 39 notebooks. [19] [20] Beatrice Webb: 1.79 million: 70 years: 1873–1943: Diaries available online. [21] Samuel Pepys: 1.25 million: 9 years ...
After sourcing through Amazon's, "100 books to read in a lifetime", we've rounded up the top 50 from this epic book list. Scroll through the gallery below and check out how many you've read -- if ...
50 [48] [49] English: 46 Heidi: Johanna Spyri: 1880: 50 [50] German: 47 Out Stealing Horses: Per Petterson: 2003 50 [51] Norwegian: 48 One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez: 1967: 47 [52] Spanish: 49 The Chronicles of Narnia: C. S. Lewis: 1950–1957: 47 [53] English: 50 The Bridge on the Drina: Ivo Andrić: 1945: 47 [54 ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
More than 162 million people viewed the blackout explanation page that temporarily replaced its content. [50] W 14 ] In January 2013, 274301 Wikipedia , an asteroid , was named after Wikipedia; [ 51 ] in October 2014, Wikipedia was honored with the Wikipedia Monument ; [ 52 ] and, in July 2015, 106 of the 7,473 700-page volumes of Wikipedia ...
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