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  2. Chernozem - Wikipedia

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    Chernozem (/ ˈ tʃ ɜːr n ə z ɛ m / CHUR-nə-zem), [a] also called black soil, regur soil or black cotton soil, is a black-colored soil containing a high percentage of humus [3] (4% to 16%) and high percentages of phosphorus and ammonia compounds. [4] Chernozem is very fertile soil and can produce high agricultural yields with its high ...

  3. Major soil deposits of India - Wikipedia

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    Alluvial soil deposit: Black soil Black soil is typical of the Deccan trap region spread over northwests Deccan plateau and is made up of lava flows. They cover the plateaus of Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, and Chattishgarh and extend in the south-east direction along the Godavari and the Krishna valleys. [1] [3] [4] [2]

  4. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    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] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...

  5. Million Book Project - Wikipedia

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    The books that have been scanned to date are not yet all available online, and no single site has copies of all the books that are available online. The million book project was a "proof of concept" that has largely been replaced by HathiTrust , Google Book Search and the Internet Archive book scanning projects.

  6. History of Maharashtra - Wikipedia

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    Although Islamic rulers dominated most of Maharashtra region after the fall of Deogiri Yadavas, in the Vidarbha region of present-day Maharashtra—and adjoining areas of present-day Telangana, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh—the Gond tribal people established kingdoms that remained free until the advent of the Mughals. From the reign of ...

  7. Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey - Wikipedia

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    He dedicated his work for research in Maharashtra history and wrote, edited and translated over 60 books on different history topics. He is well known for searching first known image of Shivaji . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Before this image, the look of Shivaji was not known to people.

  8. Black soil - Wikipedia

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    Black soil may refer to: Chernozem, fertile black soils found in eastern Europe, Russia, India and the Canadian prairies; Muck (soil), a soil made up primarily of humus from drained swampland; Vertisol, dark cracking soils with a high clay; Terra preta, "black earth" or soil of the Amazon river basin

  9. Michael S. Hart - Wikipedia

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    Thus, to avoid crashing the e-mail system, he made the e-text available for people to download. This was the beginning of Project Gutenberg as the first digital library. Hart began posting text copies of such classics as the Bible and the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. As of 1987 he had typed in a total of 313 books in this fashion.