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• Dobson's Encyclopædia
  ...ted Kingdom|King George III]] was omitted, and sundry facts about American history, geography and peoples were added. Its price was only one-third that of th ...President]] under the new Constitution. His first advertisements appeared on 31 March 1789 in three newspapers: the ''Pennsylvania Mercury'', the ''Penn
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• Bicentennial of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  On 15 October 1968, the ''Britannica'' threw a banquet for itself celebrating ...stined to become a world university" and "Senator Benton...will go down in history as one of the most influential educators of our time." Prime Minister Harol
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...wenty-five books, including several encyclopedias, handbooks, and almanacs on American religion and new religious movements. He lives in [[Santa Barbara, ...studies at [[Northwestern University]] where he received his Ph.D. in the History and Literature of Religions in 1975. His doctoral dissertation surveyed som
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• William Smellie (encyclopedist)
  ...ist]]. He was friends with [[Robert Burns]], whose assessment is engraved on Smellie's tombstone: "Here lies a man who did honour to human nature".<ref ...r a second;<ref name="EB_1954">{{cite encyclopedia | year = 1954 | title = Encyclopedias | encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica | edition= 14^th editio
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• Amos Urban Shirk
  ...ædia Britannica'']] from cover to cover in four and a half years, reading on average 3 hours per night, and taking two to six months per volume. As of 1 ...nnica''. He also read [[Henry Smith Williams]]'s 24-volume ''[[Historians' History of the World]]'', which took him two years. Among his other feats of prodig
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...icle (at the end of a section in the case of longer articles, such as that on China) and a key is given in each volume to these initials. Some articles |[[History]]
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...ister's Best Encyclopedias: A Comparative Guide to General and Specialized Encyclopedias | edition = 2nd | publisher = Oryx Press | location = Phoenix, Arizona | is ...which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted and every article updated on a schedule.<ref name="encyclopedia_1954" />
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• Robert McHenry
  ...e="WGAH">{{cite web | title=Find in a Library: Webster's guide to American history | work=WorldCat | url=http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/0877790817 | a ...sales personnel earned commissions from door-to-door selling of the print encyclopedias, which McHenry believes led to decisions about the distribution and pricing
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• Propædia
  The one-volume '''''Propædia''''' is the first of three parts of the [[History of the Encyclopædia Britannica#First version (1974–1984)|15th edition]] ...J. Adler]], all the articles of the ''Britannica'' were commissioned based on the ''Outline of Knowledge''.<ref name="circle_of_learning" />
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...igital versions of the ''Britannica'' have been developed, both online and on [[optical media]]. Since the early 1930s, the ''Britannica'' has developed {{See also|Encyclopedia|List of encyclopedias}}
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite
  ...encyclopædia]] published by [[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]], available on DVD. ...e-Reference-DVD/invt/042110800dm</ref> and a dicionary and thesaurus based on [[Merriam-Webster]]
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• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
  ...l hundred views of birthplaces, residences, monuments, and tombs famous in history.<ref name="appletons">{{Cite Appleton's|Preface|year=1900}}</ref> ...amoebic dysentery by Dr. Jaroslav Hlava, which was titled "O úplavici" ("On dysentery").</ref> The status of fictitions in ''Appletons' Cyclopædia'' w
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• Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
  {{redirect|Cyclopædia|encyclopedias generally|Encyclopedia}} ...n the eighteenth century. The ''Cyclopaedia'' was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced in English.
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• Encyclopædia Perthensis
  ...have signed plates. Interestingly, though 370 plates and maps are claimed on the title pages, there are only directions for the placement of 348 plates, ...e [[Royal Physical Society]]. However, a note dated 1810 records the death on April 14, 1809 of Mr J. Morrison of Perth, "Editor and Publisher of this En
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• Jewish Encyclopedia
  ...unk and Wagnalls]]. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of [[Judaism]] and the [[Jew]]s as of 1901. It is no .../jewishhistory/getItems.cfm/majorCatID=6 Academic Guide to Jewish History: Encyclopedias and Biographies], University of Toronto Libraries. Last update: August 13,
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• The Nuttall Encyclopædia
  ...lopædias, and specially dealing with such as come under the categories of history, biography, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science, and art". [[Category:British encyclopedias]]
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• Catholic Encyclopedia
  ...4. It was designed "to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine."<ref>[[s:Catho ...t was far broader in scope than previous efforts at comprehensive Catholic encyclopedias, which had studied only internal Church affairs.
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• A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar
  ...questions relating to [[heat]] such as the sources of heat and its effects on humans and animals, while ''Part two'' deals with questions relating to [[E ==History==
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• Nordisk familjebok
  == History == ...known as ''Uggleupplagan'' ("The [[Owl]] Edition"), because it has an owl on the cover. Two more editions were published before 1957. The copyrights hav
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• Chambers's Encyclopaedia
  ...out 1,500 headings. The articles were generally excellent, more especially on [[Jewish literature]], [[folk-lore]] and [[practical science]]; but, as in [[Category:English-language encyclopedias]]
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