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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. [125] [127]
USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate launched on 15 August 1799. She was one of the original six frigates of the newly formed United States Navy and, along with her sister ships, was larger and more heavily armed than standard frigates of the period.
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.
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.
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When the template was originally made, Britannica.com included the ID in the normal URL. TITLE provides an optional title for the link in place of the name of the Wikipedia article, in case the Britannica article has a different name for some reason (e.g. a Latin rather than a common name).
The Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. Facts on File/Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1988–. [23] The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corp., 1973. [24] Browne, Ray Broadus, Pat Browne. The guide to United States popular culture. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001.
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell , in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period of ...