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"The history of Iceland often reads like a contradiction and refutation of a number of historical prejudices. It would require only a very slight touch of fancy or of travesty to make it into a kind of Utopian romance."
Sturla the Historian (1906) by Ker

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CURRENT COLLABORATIONS

The current Community collaboration is collecting texts related to WikiProject NARA Recent collaborations: Tenth Anniversary Contest, Disney, Domesday survey, Niccolò Machiavelli

The current Proofread of the Month is Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821  (1823) by George William Manby. Recent collaborations: Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Queen Mab, Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kopal-Kundala, The Under-Ground Railroad, The Tales of a Traveler, The Life Story of an Otter, Athletics and Manly Sport, America's National Game, The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century, Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine

The current Maintenance of the Month task is Work index revision Recent collaborations: Orphans, Proposed policies and guidelines, Author page connection with Wikidata items, Help page improvement, Undated works

NEW TEXTS

Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote (2007)
Tom Brown's School Days (6th ed) (1911)
 by Thomas Hughes
Care and Management of Rabbits (1920)
 by Chesla Clella Sherlock
Biographical Notice of the Late George McClellan, M. D. (1849)
 by Samuel George Morton
A Memoir of Thomas C. James, M. D. (1843)
 by Hugh Lenox Hodge
A Biographical Memoir of Samuel George Morton, M.D. (1853)
 by George Bacon Wood
Memoir of Isaac Parrish, M.D. (1853)
 by Samuel Jackson

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