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...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 ...the future. They are an invaluable resource for topics dropped from modern encyclopedias, particularly in biography and the history of science and technology. As a

...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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...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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...'' and by Avicenna to justify the notion of the Mother of the Book." From "On the Cult of Books", ''Selected Non-Fictions'', [[Jorge Luis Borges]]; ed. [ ...ers of the school of the Mu'tazilah...Ibn Tamiyah, the [[Hanbali]] jurist, on the other hand, tends towards the other extreme in relating the Ikhwan to t