I would include biography as well.
We are heavily weighted toward moderns, who are also, not coincidentally,  
the easiest to research using Google.
That will change as more people get more familiar with using Google Books  
instead to research the biographies of people who have been more forgotten as  
time passes.  We probably have 50,000 biographies of people who lived in  the 
past 100 years, but only say 500 biographies of people who lived in the 18th  
century when we should, by population count, have perhaps ten times that number 
 if we're truly trying to represent the knowledge which actually exists in 
all  print sources.
 
Even just to take an example, some noble houses of Great Britain, like the  
Dukes of Portland, or the Earls of Dundonald, we don't have a complete set of  
articles, one on each one.  Even though such biographies do actually exist  in 
print.
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/16/2009 11:56:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
[email protected] writes:

There  are
whole fields of engineering and science that we have barely scratched  the
surface of at the  moment.


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