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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.
Dan Housman and Ron Schmelzer created VirtuMall in 1994. when they were fraternity brothers and roommates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [176] This website pioneered shopping cart technology and credit card payments sent via fax to mail order catalogs. It was also the first pooled-traffic site, helping foster standards for security.
In 1981, the first digital version of the Britannica was created for the LexisNexis service. [3] In 1990, the Britannica's sales reached an all-time high of $650 million, but Encarta, released in 1993, soon became a software staple with almost every computer purchase and the Britannica's market share plummeted.
As of 2007, old encyclopedias whose copyright has expired, such as the 1911 edition of Britannica, are also the only free content English encyclopedias released in print form. However, works such as the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, which were created in the public domain, [citation needed] exist as free content encyclopedias in other languages.
[37] [10] According to one Britannica website, 46% of the articles in the 2007 edition were revised over the preceding three years; [41] however, according to another Britannica website, only 35% of the articles were revised over the same period. [42] The alphabetization of articles in the Micropædia and Macropædia follows strict rules. [43]
The Earth's life-support systems are facing greater risks and uncertainties than ever before, with most major safety limits already crossed as a result of planet-wide human interventions ...
Like the Britannica as a whole, the Outline has three types of goals: [3]. Epistemological: to provide a systematic, hierarchical categorization of all human knowledge, a 20th-century analog of the Great Chain of Being and Francis Bacon's outline in Instauratio magna.
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.