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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 November 2024. Activity that holds attention or gives pleasure "General entertainment" redirects here. For the television channel format, see Generalist channel. For other uses, see Entertainment (disambiguation). Banqueters playing Kottabos and girl playing the aulos, Greece (c. 420 BCE). Banqueting ...
The entertainment industry (informally known as show business or show biz) is part of the tertiary sector of the economy and includes many sub-industries devoted to entertainment. However, the term is often used in the mass media to describe the mass media companies that control the distribution and manufacture of mass media entertainment.
SMS Niobe was a light cruiser of the Gazelle class, built for the Imperial German Navy.Launched in 1899, Niobe was armed with ten 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns and had a top speed of 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph).
It is a new kind of entertainment that goes far beyond simply "amusing" its audience. This picture is vital entertainment--it treats on a subject that directly affects every man, woman, and child, in America. With dramatic action it exposes the basic ideas that will rid the mind of confusion and clarify the war thinking of the public.
Stearns, Peter N. ed. Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000 (2001) 5:3–261; 18 essays by experts; Struna, Nancy L. People of Prowess Sport Leisure and Labor in Early Anglo-America (1996) excerpt; Towner, John, and Geoffrey Wall. "History and tourism." Annals of Tourism Research 18.1 (1991): 71–84. online; Towner, John.
In 2020, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. released the Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know and What We Don't, an encyclopaedia aimed primarily at younger readers, covering major topics. The encyclopedia was widely praised for bringing back the print format. It was Britannica's first encyclopaedia for children since 1984.
The Encyclopedia of World History is a classic single-volume work detailing world history. The first through fifth editions were edited by William L. Langer. The Sixth Edition contained over 20,000 entries and was overseen by Peter N. Stearns. It was made available online until removed in 2009.
The word encyclopedia is a Latinization of the Greek enkýklios paideía, which means all-around education. [2] The encyclopedia is "one of the few generalizing influences in a world of overspecialization. It serves to recall that knowledge has unity," according to Louis Shores, editor of Collier's Encyclopedia.