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The best are the old encyclopedias with outrageously outdated information. I used to love going through my mom's set from the early 50's when I was a kid. It would talk about the canal system on Mars and how scientists thought that life had developed there, Joe Kennedy (the father) had a longer entry than JFK (the son), the entry for "computer" was about a third of the page and described things the size of my house and the vaguely racist entry for "Africa". Nothing better than spending the latter part of a snow day thawing out in front of the fireplace with my jingoist literary ancestors....
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