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The Story of Mankind

Plaintext for Hendrik Willem van Loon's "The Story of Mankind"

(127813 words/733260 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["The Story of Mankind"]
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View the data:

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TextCases[ResourceData["The Story of Mankind"], "Paragraph"][[10]]
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Visualization

Show the distribution of sentence lengths:

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Histogram[(Length /@ (TextWords /@ TextSentences[ResourceData["The Story of Mankind"]])), PlotRange -> Full]
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Show the popularity of countries in the text:

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BarChart[ TakeLargest[ Counts[Interpreter["Country"][ ToLowerCase /@ TextCases[ResourceData["The Story of Mankind"], "Country"]]], 10] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "The Story of Mankind" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.35912.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: The Story of Mankind
  • Creator: Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • Date: 1921
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research