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The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still provides a print edition.
The Common Sense series included thirteen political books published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in the United Kingdom during the early 1960s. They were intended to provide a general objective background on a particular topic and were addressed at the general reader who did not have specialised knowledge of the field. They were generally well received.
Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, née Roosevelt; (born October 11, 1884 — died November 7, 1962); (in position March 4, 1933 — April 12, 1945); She was the wife of Franklin Roosevelt. Because her husband was the longest-serving president, Eleanor Roosevelt is the longest-serving First Lady.
What "Ignore all rules" means. Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. Rules are for fools. By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. The code is more what you call "guidelines" than actual rules.
Etiquette ( / ˈɛtikɛt, - kɪt /) is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group. In modern English usage, the French ...
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg [a] ( c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread ...
Portrait and printer's mark of Wynkyn de Worde. From a drawing by Fathorne. Plaque to Wynkyn de Worde, Stationers Hall, London Wynkyn de Worde (/ ˈ w ɪ ŋ k ɪ n d ə ˈ w ɜːr d /; died 1534, London) was a printer and publisher in London known for his work with William Caxton, and is recognised as the first to popularise the products of the printing press in England.
Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962. Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated by NASA as part of Project Mercury, it was the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American sub-orbital flights Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4.