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The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.

Willard Fiske

Willard Fiske

Willard Fiske

Born: November 11, 1831

Died: September 17, 1904 (aged 72)

Bio: Daniel Willard Fiske was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York.

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Chess In Iceland And In Icelandic Literature
An Egyptian alphabet for the Egyptian people (1897)
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