Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Famous First Facts is a book listing "First Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions in the United States". The current version of the book — the sixth edition (ISBN 0-8242-1065-4), published in December 2006 — includes more than 7,500 entries on 1,300 pages, organized by five different indexes.The book was originally published by H. W. Wilson Company in 1933, weighing in at 757 pages and selling for $3.50. The book was created by Joseph Nathan Kane, a freelance journalist who had assembled 3,000 "firsts" into a text that had been rejected by 11 other publishers before it was accepted by its current publisher. The book became a library reference standard.The first edition led to a 1938-39 radio show hosted by Kane on the Mutual Broadcasting System.The second edition of the book was published in 1950, the third in 1964, the fourth in 1981 and the fifth in 1997."@en }
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- Famous_First_Facts abstract "Famous First Facts is a book listing "First Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions in the United States". The current version of the book — the sixth edition (ISBN 0-8242-1065-4), published in December 2006 — includes more than 7,500 entries on 1,300 pages, organized by five different indexes.The book was originally published by H. W. Wilson Company in 1933, weighing in at 757 pages and selling for $3.50. The book was created by Joseph Nathan Kane, a freelance journalist who had assembled 3,000 "firsts" into a text that had been rejected by 11 other publishers before it was accepted by its current publisher. The book became a library reference standard.The first edition led to a 1938-39 radio show hosted by Kane on the Mutual Broadcasting System.The second edition of the book was published in 1950, the third in 1964, the fourth in 1981 and the fifth in 1997.".