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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 105. Chapters: John Holmes, Tina Turner, Jeff Mills, William Joyce, Donna Summer, George H. D. Gossip, Edward Drinker Cope, Dean Smith, John McEnroe, Landon Donovan, Ray Allen, George Brecht, Chaka Khan, Carlos Boozer, Debby Ryan, Priscilla Presley, Laurence Traiger, Marcia Gay Harden, Chris Sligh, Roscoe Tanner, Bill Ramsey, Terence Trent D'Arby, Khleo, Cory Gibbs, Paul Caligiuri, Scatman John, Jennifer Rush, Peggy March, Brooke Burns, Melanie Thornton, John Louis Nuelsen, Mike Brown, Mike Terrana, Heath Pearce, Anton Newcombe, Mayte Garcia, Amanda Somerville, Joe Morton, Eric Eichmann, Ted Drury, Eddie Constantine, Dawn Lyn, Robert Piotrowski, Charlie Mariano, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Fern Andra, Amaechi Igwe, Carina Axelsson, Jared Hasselhoff, John Fletcher Hurst, Malcolm Mooney, Mount Sims, Michael Boyer, Cody Laurendi, Christopher Paul Jones, Elizabeth Parcells, Helen Schneider, Arnold Dreyblatt, Ann Cotten, Grover Gibson, Will McBride, Jessa Crispin, Bruce Darnell, John van Buskirk, Fredric Kroll, Albert Bloch, Alfred Gudeman, Harvey Friedman, Ed Ward, Heather DeLisle, Hazel Harrison, Gerhard Spiegler, Bo eslavs Maikovskis, Gus Backus. Excerpt: George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip (December 6, 1841 - May 11, 1907) was a minor American-English chess master and writer. He competed in chess tournaments between 1870 and 1895, playing against most of the world's leading players, but with only modest success. The writer G. H. Diggle calls him "the King of Wooden Spoonists" because he usually finished last in strong tournaments. Gossip was also a noted writer. His treatise The Chess-Player's Manual-A Complete Guide to Chess, a 900-page tome published in 1874 after several years of work, was harshly received by the critics, largely because he had included a number of informal skittles games that he had (atypically) won against stronge...