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1993/12: Creation of three main sections: Light Literature, Heavy Literature, Reference Literature. 1994: Digitization of eight books per month. 1995: Digitization of 16 books per month. 1996-97: Digitization of 32 books per month. 1998-2000: Digitization of 36 books per month. 2000/10: Charles Franks started Distributed Proofreaders to assist Project Gutenberg.
Tonight, my fellow Americans, we are summoned to answer a question as old as the republic itself, what is the state of our union? It is growing stronger but it must be stronger still. With your help and God's help it will be. Thank you and God Bless America. State of the Union Address William J. Clinton January 24, 1995 Mr. President, Mr.
An ad hoc meeting was held in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 27, 1995, at which representatives of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, British Library and Helsinki University Library met to discuss the proposed CENL WWW. Objectives were set out at the meeting and an action schedule agreed. These three libraries set up the pilot Gabriel project.
The turbulent period between 1920 and 1995, with its incalculable waste of blood and treasure, its dreadful conflicts of armies and more dreadful massacres by passionate mobs, its kaleidoscopic changes of government and incessant effacement and redrawing of boundaries of states, its interminable tale of political assassinations and proscriptions all the horrors incident to intestinal wars of a naturally lawless race had so exhausted and dispirited the surviving protagonists of legitimate government that they could make no further head against the inevitable, and were glad indeed and most fortunate to accept life on any terms that they could obtain.
The service was then mounted and maintained in London by British Library Network Services and was mirrored in The Hague, Netherlands, and Helsinki, Finland. A second stage in the project was initiated on behalf of CENL in October 1995. The project was hosted by the British Library in London.
It so happened that my father was attending a seminar on organic farming in Kottayam and as he would also be visiting some organic farms he thought it a good idea if I came along. The trip would take us to Kerala. Dad and I left Goa on 30th August, 1995. The bus departed from Panaji bus stand at six a.m. and reached Mangalore the same day at four in the evening.
The digital collections of American Memory are a major component of the Library of Congress's National Digital Library Program. Begun in 1995 after a five-year pilot project, the program began digitizing selected collections of Library of Congress archival materials that chronicle the nation's rich cultural heritage.
The recurrent rescues of Mexico following its systemic crises in 1976, 1982, 1988, and 1994 are textbook examples of moral hazard. The Cato Institute called them, in a 1995 Policy Analysis paper, "palliatives" which create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies such as refusing to float the peso.
Such a person is looking forward to being equipped with a digital book, which will appear in 1999. Jeff Bezos created Amazon.com in July 1995, after a market study which led him to conclude that books were the best products to sell on the Internet.
Working together, these libraries created a functional pilot service based on entries describing their own services and collections between March and September 1995. The pilot service was endorsed by the CENL annual meeting at Bern in Switzerland in September 1995 and launched on the Internet.
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