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2. Timelines of world history - Wikipedia

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   These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history. For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history.

3. World Book Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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   World Book Encyclopedia. The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still ...

4. William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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   William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that ...

5. History of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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   Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.

6. Commonplace book - Wikipedia

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   Overview. "Commonplace" is a translation of the Latin term locus communis (from Greek tópos koinós, see literary topos) which means "a general or common place", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom. In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton 's example. "Commonplace book" is at times ...

7. History of books - Wikipedia

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   Origins. The history of the book became an acknowledged academic discipline in the latter half of the 20th century. It was fostered by William Ivins Jr.'s Prints and Visual Communication (1953) and Henri-Jean Martin and Lucien Febvre's L'apparition du livre (The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450–1800) in 1958 as well as Marshall McLuhan's Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of ...

8. Codex - Wikipedia

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   Codex. The codex ( pl.: codices / ˈkoʊdɪsiːz /) [1] was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term codex is often used for ancient manuscript books, with handwritten contents. [2] A codex is bound by stacking the pages and securing ...

9. World history - Wikipedia

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   History and academics. World history (field), or global history, a field of historical study that takes a worldwide/global perspective. Big History, an academic discipline that takes an astronomical perspective (from the Big Bang to the present) Chronology of the universe, the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology.