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The Encyclopædia Britannica ( Latin for 'British Encyclopaedia') is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The encyclopaedia is maintained by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors.
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period of 3 ...
Encyclopedia Americana is a general encyclopedia [1] written in American English.It was the first general encyclopedia of any magnitude to be published in North America. [2]: 31 With Collier's Encyclopedia and Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopedia Americana became one of the three major and large English-language general encyclopedias; the three were sometimes collectively called "the ABCs of ...
The so-called New Encyclopædia Britannica (or Britannica 3) had a unique three-part organization: a single Propædia (Primer for Education) volume, which aimed to provide an outline of "all known information"; a 10-volume Micropædia (Small Education) of 102,214 short articles (strictly less than 750 words); and a 19-volume Macropædia (Large ...
Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address introducing the theme of the Four Freedoms Freedom from Want is the third in a series of four oil paintings entitled Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell. They were inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, known as Four Freedoms, delivered to the 77th United States Congress on January 6, 1941. In the early 1940s, Roosevelt's Four ...
Börte, also known as Börte Üjin ( Mongolian: ᠪᠥᠷᠲᠡ ᠦᠵᠢᠨ; Cyrillic: Бөртэ үжин; c. 1161–1230), was the first wife of Temüjin, who became Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire. Börte became the head of the first Court of Genghis Khan, and Grand Empress of his Empire. She was betrothed to Genghis at a ...
The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings— Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear —are each approximately 45.75 by 35.5 inches (116.2 by 90.2 cm), [1] and are now in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Manasollasacomposed by king Someshvara IIIof the Western Chalukya Empire of India. Liber Floridus, compiled in 1120 by Lambert of St. Omer. Imago mundi, treaty of cosmographyand history by Honorius Augustodunensis, about 1110. De philosophia mundi, written about 1125–35 by William of Conches.