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<title>"Fifty Famous People" by James Baldwin</title>
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At last, far in the East, he came to a land of which he had never heard. The people there knew 
nothing about war and conquest. Although they were rich, they lived simply and were at peace with 
all the world.
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<link>http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6168</link>

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<title>Aung San Suu Kyi</title>
<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/photos/phyo/suukyi.html</link>
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Aung San Suu Kyi, a Noble Peace Laureate of 1991, was cited by the Nobel Committee as "one of the 
most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades." She was educated at 
Delhi University and Oxford University. She has won numerous awards and honors in addition to the 
Nobel Peace Prize, most notably the Rafto Human Rights Prize and the Sakhorov Prize. She is the 
general secretary and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy and was placed under house 
arrest by the military junta in July of 1989 for her activities.She has spent around 10 of the 
past 15 years either in prison or under house arrest.
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<title>Paul Green</title>
<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/paulgreen/</link>
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Author Paul Green (1894-1981) was one of the South's most revered writers, and one of America's 
most distinguished. The first playwright from the South to gain national and international 
recognition, he was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern 
writing to the attention of the world. His best known achievements were as a playwright, but he 
is most renowned as a writer both from the South, as well as a writer of dramatic material about 
the South. Equal to his literary influence has been his influence on human rights in the South 
and internationally.
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<title>WCPE: The Classical Station</title>
<link>http://theclassicalstation.org/</link>
<description>
 WCPE believes that classical music is an integral part of the quality of life in our 
communities. Accordingly, WCPE's mission is to make Great Classical Music available to the public 
24 hours a day. WCPE, via ibiblio, offers unlimited streams of audio on the Internet in MP3, Ogg 
Vorbis, and QuickTime audio formats.
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<title>Eric Raymond</title>
<link>http://www.catb.org/~esr</link>
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Eric Raymond is an observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. His 
research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that has 
proven so effective in the evolution of the Internet. He is editor of "The New Hacker's 
Dictionary", the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", and the creator of one of the 
Internet's most widely used email transport programs, fetchmail.
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<title>Lawrence Lessig</title>
<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/lessig/</link>
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Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center 
for Internet and Society.He is the author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of 
Cyberspace. He also chairs the Creative Commons project. Professor Lessig is a boardmember of the 
Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a Board Member of the Center for the Public Domain. Lessig 
was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations 
of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."
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<title>Jimmy Wales</title>
<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/wales/</link>
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Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales setup the Wikipedia project in early 2001. The project has now grown into the 
largest freely available online encyclopedia and is available in more than 100 languages. In 
mid-2003, Wales set up the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, to support Wikipedia and its sister 
projects. Wales is the foundation's president and chairman of the board. Wales is a fellow of the 
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School.
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<title>Doc Searls</title>
<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/searls/</link>
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Doc Searls is a writer, speaker, and a senior editor at Linux Journal. He also runs the new Doc 
Searls' IT Garage, an online journal. He is co-author of the international bestseller, The 
Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog. J.D. Lasica 
of Annenberg's Online Journalism Review calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers in the blog 
movement." Doc's blog is consistently listed among the top few blogs on the internet.
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<title>Dan Gillmor</title>
<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/gillmor/</link>
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Dan Gillmor, founder of Grassroots Media Inc., is devoted to the discussion of the issues facing 
grassroots journalism as it grows into an important force in society. Dan is author of We the 
Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People, a 2004 book that is widely credited 
as the first comprehensive look at way the collision of technology and journalism is transforming 
the media landscape.
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