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  2. History of encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    John Harris is often credited with introducing the now-familiar alphabetic format in 1704 with his English Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves – to give its full title. Organized alphabetically, its content does indeed contain explanation not ...

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    Martha Bradley (fl. 1740s – 1755) was a British cookery book writer. Little is known about her life, except that she published the cookery book The British Housewife (pictured) in 1756 and worked as a cook for more than 30 years in the fashionable spa town of Bath, Somerset.

  4. List of online encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    English Online encyclopedia of Louisiana, run by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. [22] Free Encyclopedia of Alabama: English Encyclopedia covering the state of Alabama, sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation. Free Encyclopedia of Appalachia: English Dedicated to the region, people, culture, history, and geography of ...

  5. Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    The modern encyclopedia evolved from the dictionary in the 18th century; this lineage can be seen in the alphabetical order of print encyclopedias. [19] Historically, both encyclopedias and dictionaries have been compiled by well-educated, well-informed content experts, but they are significantly different in structure.

  6. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis , a web portal company.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons). Normally use nouns or noun phrases: Early life, not In early life. [f]

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Spelling

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    The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.

  9. Bibliography of encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. Scribner's, 1980. [23] Schapsmeier, Edward L. and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History. Greenwood, 1975. [34] Shavit, David. The United States in the Middle East: A historical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1988. ISBN 0-313 ...