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  2. World Book Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    World Book Encyclopedia was also published in electronic form for Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X. Electronic editions contained the entire text of the 22-volume World Book Encyclopedia, plus illustrations, video clips, 3D panoramic views, and sounds. The articles bring together a complete story, multimedia content, an article outline ...

  3. On the World Book Encyclopedia (and a little bit of ... - AOL

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    Columnist David Murdock still has his family's prized 1965 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, and recalls pleasant hours reading it.

  4. Lists of encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge; List of encyclopedias by date; ... This page was last edited on 25 January 2024, at 00:50 (UTC).

  5. List of encyclopedias by date - Wikipedia

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    Adab al-katib (The book of knowledge) by Ibn Qutayba (828–889); the earliest Arabic work that could be called an encyclopedia [dubious – discuss] Bibliotheca by Patriarch Photius (9th century), the earliest Byzantine work that could be called an encyclopedia; Hrabanus Maurus, 842. De rerum naturis (On the nature of things), derived from ...

  6. World Book Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 by Field Enterprises under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and ...

  7. Childcraft - Wikipedia

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    The Childcraft series was originally created in 1934 by W. F. Quarrie & Company, then publishers of the World Book encyclopedia. The series' title was Childcraft – The How and Why Library. Childcraft was created as a sort of encyclopedia for young children. With simple texts and illustrations, the volumes were designed to make learning fun.

  8. The World Almanac - Wikipedia

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    The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1987, besides a tea kettle, TIPA, Dharamsala, India. In 1894, when it claimed more than a half-million "habitual users," The World Almanac changed its name to The World Almanac and Encyclopedia. This was the title it kept until 1923, when it became The World Almanac and Book of Facts, the name it bears today.

  9. List of English-language 20th-century general encyclopedias

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    New World Wide Encyclopedia (1918) World Wide Encyclopedia (1919) New World Encyclopedia (1919) (Link includes vol. 1) Adair's New Encyclopedia (1923) (Link includes vols. 2-5) Time's Encyclopedia and Gazetteer (1929) Twentieth Century Encyclopedia (1930) Worlds Popular Encyclopedia (1937)