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艾伦图灵传

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 艾伦·麦席森·图灵(英语:Alan Mathison Turing,1912年6月23日—1954年6月7日),英国数学家、逻辑学家,被称为计算机科学之父,人工智能之父。1931年图灵进入剑桥大学国王学院,毕业后到美国普林斯顿大学攻读博士学位,第二次世界大战爆发后回到剑桥,后曾协助军方破解德国的著名密码系统Enigma,帮助盟军取得了二战的胜利。 1952年...


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The Pacification of Burma

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On the 20th of December, 1852, Lord Dalhousie issued a proclamation annexing the province of Pegu to the British Dominions. \"The Governor-General in Council,\" he said, \"having exacted the reparation he deems sufficient, desires no further conquest in Burma and is willing that hostilities should cease.


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Herbert Carter\'s Legacy

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 Horatio Alger, Jr., an author who lived among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association till death, was born at Revere, Mass., January 13, 1834. He was the son of a clergyman; was graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at its Divinity School in 1860; and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Brewster, Mass., ...


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Absalom's hair

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Bjrnstjerne Martinus Bjrnson (1832-1910) was a Norwegian writer and a 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. He is generally considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers. Bjrnson matriculated at the University of Oslo in 1852, soon embarking upon a career as a journalist, focusing on criticism of drama. In 1857 he publishe...


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The History of Henry Esmond

Category: Author:William Makepeace Tha 

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM BINGHAM, LORD ASHBURTON. MY DEAR LORD, The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne’s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. ...


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The Sphere and Duties of Government

Category: Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt 

The book of which a translation is here offered to the English reader was published posthumously at Berlin, in the year 1852, by the Author’s younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, the eminent Naturalist. It appeared under the title of ‘Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Gr?nzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen;’ forming part of the ...


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Endymion

Category: Author:Benjamin Disraeli 

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was an English statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister - the first and thus far only person of Jewish descent to do so, although Disraeli was baptised in the Anglican Church at an early age. D...


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Basil

Category: Author:Wilkie Collins 

Basil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen dr...


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The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina

Category: Author:F. Colburn Adams 

OUR generous friends in Georgia and South Carolina will not add among their assumptions that we know nothing of the South and Southern life. A residence of several years in those States, a connection with the press, and associations in public life, gave us opportunities which we did not lose, and have not lost sight of; and if we dippe...


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The Old Man and the Sea

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The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out ...


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