The Million Book Project, originating from the Carnegie Mellon University, aims to digitize a million public domain books by 2005. The plan is to scan the books, and index them using OCR technology. A pilot Thousand Book Project was performed to test the concept.
... Parry[?], (born 1790), Arctic explorer
Robert Edwin Peary, (1856-1920), first man to reach the North Pole
Auguste Piccard, (1884-1962), physicist and ...