Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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
First was Britannica Insights, [105] 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 ...
Introduction of the 16-bit Intel 8086, the first x86 microprocessor. The available clock frequencies were 5, 8 and 10 MHz, with an instruction set of about 300 [ citation needed ] operations. At its introduction, the fastest 8086 available was the 8 MHz version which achieved 0.8 MIPS and contained 29,000 transistors.
1024x768 resolution, 16-bit color Operating System: Windows® XP (with SP2), Windows® Vista or Windows® 7 (Vista through 8.1 for the 2015 edition [9]) Mac®OS 10.5.x or 10.6.x (10.6 or 10.7 for the 2013 edition [10] and for the Mac version of the 2014 edition; [11] 10.7 to 10.9 for the Mac version of the 2015 edition [12])
In the Print/export section select Download as PDF. The rendering engine starts and a dialog appears to show the rendering progress. When rendering is complete, the dialog shows "The document file has been generated. Download the file to your computer." Click the download link to open the PDF in your selected PDF viewer.
January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (born 1889) [43] January 13 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (born 1878) [44] January 19 – Barbu Lăzăreanu, Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (heart attack, born 1881) February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (born 1867) [45]
Collier's Encyclopedia is a discontinued general encyclopedia first published in 1949 by P. F. Collier and Son in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With Encyclopedia Americana and Encyclopædia Britannica , Collier's Encyclopedia became one of the three major English-language general encyclopedias.
1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.