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  2. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...

  3. Purple parchment - Wikipedia

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    Purple parchment or purple vellum refers to parchment dyed purple; codex purpureus refers to manuscripts written entirely or mostly on such parchment. The lettering may be in gold or silver. Later [when?] the practice was revived for some especially grand illuminated manuscripts produced for the emperors in Carolingian art and Ottonian art, in ...

  4. Toki Pona - Wikipedia

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    Toki Pona(rendered as toki pona [a] and often translated as 'the language of good'; [b] IPA: [ˈtoki ˈpona] (listen ⓘ); English: / ˈtoʊkiˈpoʊnə /) is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary, simplicity, and ease of acquisition. [5] It was created by Sonja Lang ( née Elen Kisa), a Canadian linguist ...

  5. Lydia of Thyatira - Wikipedia

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    Lydia of Thyatira is most known as a "seller" or merchant of purple cloth, which is the likely reason for the Catholic Church naming her "patroness of dyers." It is unclear as to if Lydia simply dealt in the trade of purple dye or whether her business included textiles as well, [7] though all known icons of the saint depict her with some form ...

  6. Purple prose - Wikipedia

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    Purple prose is criticized for desaturating the meaning in an author's text by overusing melodramatic and fanciful descriptions. As there is no precise rule or absolute definition of what constitutes purple prose, deciding if a text, passage, or complete work has fallen victim is a somewhat subjective decision.

  7. The Color Purple - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.. The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content ...

  8. Purple Hibiscus - Wikipedia

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    Synopsis. Purple Hibiscus is set in postcolonial Nigeria, a country beset by political instability and economic difficulties. The central character is Kambili Achike, aged fifteen for much of the period covered by the book, a member of a wealthy family in Enugu State, dominated by her devoutly Catholic father, Eugene.

  9. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative effort by a team of scholars at Yale University, American Philosophical Society and others who have searched, collected, edited, and published the numerous letters from and to Benjamin Franklin, and other works, especially those involved with the American Revolutionary period and thereafter.

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