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  2. Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikipedia

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    The journal found just eight serious errors, such as general misunderstandings of vital concepts: four from each site. It also discovered many factual errors, omissions or misleading statements: 162 in Wikipedia and 123 in Britannica, an average of 3.86 mistakes per article for Wikipedia and 2.92 for Britannica. [101] [103]

  3. List of encyclopedias by date - Wikipedia

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    Domestic Encyclopedia (1802) Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia (1802, second edition 1811) Rees's Cyclopædia (1802–1819) Encyclopædia Perthensis (Perth, Scotland, 1803;1816) Encyclopædia Britannica (fourth edition, 1810; ninth edition by 1889) Edinburgh Encyclopædia (1808–1830) British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1809)

  4. Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite - Wikipedia

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    There is no official release of Britannica for the Linux operating system; however, a script is provided that can help experienced users run Encyclopædia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD (and other 2004 editions of Britannica) on Linux, with some limitations (for example the dictionary, Flash/QuickTime presentations, and content ...

  5. Wikipedia : Comparison of Wikipedia's and Britannica's ...

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    Britannica's Outline of Knowledge was created for the 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, prior to the rest of the encyclopedia, as a plan from which to base topic coverage on – to shape it before it was built. It served initially to ensure quality, and once the encyclopedia was completed, as a topical guide.

  6. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Len Deighton (born 1929) is a British author. His publications have included cookery books and works on history, but he is best known for his spy novels.He had several jobs before writing his first novel, The IPCRESS File, in 1962; it was a critical and commercial success.

  7. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Britannica acquired Merriam-Webster in 1964 and Compton's Encyclopedia as well in the early 1960s. [3] [4] Benton died in 1973, before the fifteenth edition was published in 1974. The newly titled Britannica 3 was composed of a ten-volume Micropædia, a 19-volume Macropædia and a one-volume guide to the encyclopædia's use, called Propædia.

  8. Online encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteer contributors, known as Wikipedians, through a model of open collaboration. It is the largest and most-read reference work in history. [10] Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called Nupedia. [11]

  9. History of the Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. Several editions have been amended with multi-volume "supplements" (third, fifth/sixth), consisted of previous editions with added supplements (10th, and 12th/13th) or gone drastic re-organizations (15th).