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The Britannica does not cover topics in equal detail; for example, the whole of Buddhism and most other religions is covered in a single Macropædia article, whereas 14 articles are devoted to Christianity, comprising nearly half of all religion articles. [115] The Britannica covers 50,479 biographies, 5,999 of them about women, with 11.87% ...
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.
New articles are constantly being added, whereas older articles are sometimes split, absorbed into other articles or drastically shortened or even deleted. An example of the latter is the 1989 article " Adhesives ", which had its own article of seven pages in the 1989 Macropædia but was merely a page in a different article of the 1991 edition.
Another related branch of activity is the creation of new, free content on a volunteer basis. In 1991, participants of the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.douglas-adams [8] started Project Galactic Guide to produce a real version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional encyclopedia used in the works of Douglas Adams.
Freberg is probably best known for appearing in a series of commercials for Encyclopædia Britannica produced by his father, satirist and advertising creative Stan Freberg. The 1988–1993 advertising campaign was the most successful in the company's 200-year history and Donavan was elevated to cult status.
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).
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition First page of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition Language British English Release number 11 Subject General Publisher Horace Everett Hooper Publication date 1910–1911 Publication place United States Media type Print and digital Preceded by Encyclopædia Britannica Tenth Edition Followed by Encyclopædia Britannica Twelfth Edition ...
A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952; second edition, 1990) is a two-volume index, published as volumes 2 and 3 of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.’s collection Great Books of the Western World.