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Britannica acquired Merriam-Webster in 1964 and Compton's Encyclopedia as well in the early 1960s. [2] [3] 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.
Although prior to 1920 the Britannica was primarily sold by mail-order, [107] after that time the Britannica was almost exclusively sold by door-to-door salesmen, [108] [107] who often used high-pressure sales tactics or outright deception in order to secure purchases of the expensive work, [107] [97] 317-330 from which they gained a ...
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Weedon's Modern Encyclopedia (1931) a non-Britannica publication that was bought out and repackaged by Britannica as Britannica Junior (1934) Great Books of the Western World (1952) Children's Britannica (1960) aimed at ages seven to 14. Gateway to the Great Books (1963) Young Children's Encyclopaedia (1970) for children just learning to read
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles is the parent WikiProject of this project. s:WS:EB1911 is the sister project dealing with the proof-reading of texts.. The single most useful category for this project is probably Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica relating to the {{Cite EB1911}} template.
Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1726, his father a baker. He had little formal education and was apprenticed to the engraver Richard Cooper. [1] Bell was a colourful Scot. His height was four foot six inches (1.37 m); he had crooked legs and an enormous nose that he would sometimes augment with a papier-mache version whenever anyone stared at his natural nose. [2]