The most glaring omission is the lack of links to related sources outside the encyclopedia.
When it gives, it sounds like a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica has hit the concrete-slab floor.
This is the starting point for the rest of the encyclopedia's critical apparatus, a means of definition.
When the show asked her to be on, she memorized the Encyclopedia of Boxing in a few weeks.
But as its reputation as an online resource has grown, the encyclopedia has also become a target for corporate spin.
Knowledge, which used to be available only to the elite classes through books such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, is today abundant and free.
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Steering clear of Northwestern University's tweedy English department, he graduated in 1937 in anthropology and sociology and later went to work for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Its excursions into the realms of the encyclopedia are also curious.
It was much bound up with the clean-living Rastafarianism he had plucked out of the encyclopedia, but it was also drawn from his own South African experience.
The encyclopedia set was first published in 1768 in Scotland.
He recently coordinated the release of an abridged Chinese version of the Encyclopedia Judaica, a 900-page volume that took three years and the work of 40 scholars to complete.
According to Brian Stableford, writing in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference on the genre, Camille Flammarion was the first author to present a popular fictional portrait of truly alien life-forms.
It is a tragedy of history, the author concludes, that Voltaire and Rousseau won the battle of ideas, whereas Diderot was reduced to the rank of editor of the encyclopedia, and Holbach was forgotten utterly.
In order to expand the availability of the encyclopedia to people from all around the world, 1000 copies will be printed and the use of different media and information sources, such as Wikipedia, will be utilized.
Entering a strange region, he would grapple with its history, rifling through the Encyclopedia Britannica and Meyers Konversationslexicon to trace the movements of tribes and the collision of cultures, producing in his books whole page-lists of Klephts and Armatoles, Kroumides and Koniarides, Phanariots of the Sublime Porte and boyars of Moldowallachia, until his readers swooned.
We especially liked the illustrated encyclopedia of plants and the selection of rosebushes.
According to an article in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Lucas also did important work on the optimal tax structure.
It costs nothing to use but it shoved the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica into moldy library stacks.
For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history.
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According to Johnson, the online encyclopedia provided them with almost everything they needed to know about crafting conductive materials.
This is the lay encyclopedia, authored by anyone who wants to chip in.
Godwin now is general counsel for the parent of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, which itself got fooled by anonymity.
What is true in one language should not be untrue (or uncertain) in another language for the same encyclopedia.
To protest the proposed legislation, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia said it will close down its English language version for 24 hours on Wednesday.
While Siri relies on external databases for answers, such as the online encyclopedia Wolfram Alpha, Evi has a painstakingly amassed collection of 635 million facts on 28 million things.
It hit him last week when he realized that he would have a baseball card, and when his cousin texted him that his name was now in the baseball encyclopedia.
Last August, Griffith, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, released a simple piece of software code that tore the lid of secrecy off the anonymous community of volunteers who edit the nonprofit encyclopedia.
But Google may have done ol' Fred (who, incidentally, published "The Trivia Encyclopedia, " a compendium of facts and tidbits that has kept information fans busy for more than three decades) one better, thanks to its latest offering: fun facts.
For example, a Bing image search app shows related images, a YouTube app shows trailers related to actors in an image, an Amazon app gives links to purchase MP3s related to a musician in an image, a Netflix app shows related movies that can be watched, Celebuzz includes news about celebrities and Wikipedia shows related entries from the online encyclopedia.
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Wales, 39, is the father of the world's most sprawling encyclopedia, the online Wikipedia.
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