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| [[Image:Johannes Diderik van der Waals photographic portrait.jpg|right|thumb|175px|{{Johannes Diderik van der Waals photographic portrait.jpg/credit}}<BR>Johannes Diderik van der Waals, most probably around 1910 when he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]].]]
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| The '''[[McGuffey Readers]]''', first published in 1836-37, were a set of highly influential [[school]] textbooks for use in the elementary and higher grades in the United States. Indeed, owing to their widespread usage over many years, they played an important role in shaping the American character itself. From the year in which they were first published, and for nearly a century thereafter, successive generations of American schoolchildren used these readers to acquire basic [[literacy]] skills and to imbibe the moral lessons they taught.
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| | [[:Category:Stub Articles|Stubs]] <font size=1>('''{{PAGESINCAT:Stub Articles}}''')</font><br /> |
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