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  2. The Screech Owls - Wikipedia

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    Mystery at Lake Placid is the first book in the series. The Screech Owls is a series of juvenile fiction novels by Canadian author Roy MacGregor . There are currently 27 titles in the series, all published by McClelland & Stewart .

  3. Max Gaines - Wikipedia

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    Max Ginzberg was born in New York City to a Jewish family. [5] Maxwell Charles Gaines was described as a "hard-nosed, pain-wracked, loud aggressive man". [6] At age four, Gaines had leaned out too far from a second story window and fell to the ground, catching his leg on a picket fence.

  4. Melvil Dewey - Wikipedia

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    Lake Placid from the Whiteface Mountain gondola. Late in his life, Dewey helped found the Lake Placid Club as a health resort in New York state. [32] His theories of spelling reform (to which end he founded the Spelling Reform Association in 1886 and later the Simplified Spelling Board) [11] found some local success

  5. Seymour Dunn - Wikipedia

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    [5] A list of his books follows: Lake Placid Club Golf Courses (Lake Placid, NY: Lake Placid Club, 1910). Golf Fundamentals: Orthodoxy of Style [with illustrations] (Lake Placid, NY: Seymour Dunn [1922]) Standardized Golf Instruction (Long Island City, NY [1934]). [with Al Ross] The Complete Golf Joke Book (New York: Stravon Publishers, 1953).

  6. List of bookstore chains - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of bookstore chains with brick-and-mortar locations. In the United Kingdom and many parts of the English speaking world, they are known as "Bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English , they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines.

  7. List of independent bookstores in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of independent bookstores in the United States, both current and defunct, which have had physical ("brick-and-mortar") locations. For bookstores with at least 4 locations, see list of bookstore chains .

  8. The Secret History of Home Economics - Wikipedia

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    In 1899, Annie Dewey and Richards held a conference in Lake Placid, New York with the goal of convincing universities to treat the home sciences seriously for the purpose of creating "a new profession demanding adequate compensation." The attendees settled on "home economics," positioning it as a subset of general economics.

  9. Roni (mascot) - Wikipedia

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    The mascot is a raccoon, which is a familiar animal from the mountainous region of the Adirondacks where Lake Placid is situated. The name Roni comes from the word racoon in Iroquoian, the language of the native people from the region of the State of New York and Lake Placid, and was chosen by Lake Placid school children. [1]

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