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| Title page of the first edition of Moby-Dick, 1851 |
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An A-Z of trivia and trifles obscure and significant
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| Title page of the first edition of Moby-Dick, 1851 |
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| 22 mm long Bullet ant By © Hans Hillewaert |
The first musical stage performance seen in the US was a ballad opera called Flora produced in Charleston in 1735.
The house where Geoffrey Chaucer was born is now covered by the arrival platform of London's Cannon Street Station.
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| An example VisiCalc spreadsheet on an Apple II |
Sales were initially brisk, with about 300,000 copies sold. It eventually sold over 700,000 copies in six years, and as many as 1 million copies over its history.
VisiCalc is often considered the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool, prompting IBM to introduce the IBM PC two years later.
Spreadsheet Day commemorates on October 17 every year the date that VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for personal computers, was released.
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| An early incarnation of The Rolling Stones |
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