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First was Britannica Insights, [80] a free, downloadable software extension to the Google Chrome browser that served up edited, fact-checked Britannica information with queries on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Its purpose, the company said, was to "provide trusted, verified information" in conjunction with search results that ...
Free Encyclopedia of Appalachia: English Dedicated to the region, people, culture, history, and geography of Appalachia. Defunct Encyclopedia of Arkansas: English Project of the Central Arkansas Library System and is the only U.S. state encyclopedia sponsored by a public library Free Encyclopedia of Chicago: English Free Encyclopedia Virginia ...
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.
10 Eventful Years is the title of the 1947 Encyclopædia Britannica compilation, spanning ten years, 1937 through 1946. The books were commissioned and edited by Walter Yust, the editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and were partly based on the Encyclopedia's annual Year Book.
Donavan Freberg (born April 6, 1971) is an American photographer, advertising creative, voice actor, and writer.. 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.
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).
Robert Dale McHenry (born April 30, 1945) [1] is an American editor, encyclopedist, philanthropist and writer.McHenry worked from 1967 for Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. or associated companies, becoming editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1992, a position he held until 1997.
The volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.The Macropædia is the set of volumes 13 to 29, with single colour spines.. The 17-volume Macropædia is the third part of the Encyclopædia Britannica; the other two parts are the 12-volume Micropædia and the one-volume Propædia.