My newest find: a complete eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica imgur.com/gallery/S4oLxcI
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10 December 1768 –The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.
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10 December 1768 –The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.
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When Fat'h Ali became Shah of Persia in 1797, he was given a set of the Encyclopædia Britannica's 3rd edition, which he read completely; after this feat, he extended his royal title to include "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica".
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TIL when Fat'h Ali became Shah of Persia in 1797, he was given a set of the Encyclopædia Britannica's 3rd edition, which he read completely; after this feat, he extended his royal title to include "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat…
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Representation of the apparent motion of the Sun, Mercury, and Venus from the earth. Taken from the Astronomy article in the first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1771)
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TDIH: December 10, 1768, The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. Illustration: Title page of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India (1497-99). By Encyclopædia Britannica
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TIL that after reading the entire 3rd edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Shah of Iran extended his royal title to include "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enc…
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What the first (1768) Encyclopædia Britannica had to say about housecats (excerpt from entry: FELINE). It's amusingly biased. OC photos from reprint edition.
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Encyclopædia Britannica: The Imperial Depression (Alternate titles: The Great Depression, Depression of 1936)

The Imperial Depression, worldwide economic downturn that began in 1936 and lasted until about 1940. It was the most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory. Although it originated in the German Empire, the Great Depression caused drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation in almost every most countries of the world, with only the Syndicalist revolutionary governments of the Third International being largely spared. Its social and cultural effects were no less staggering, especially in the Germany, where the Imperial Depression represented the harshest peacetime adversity faced by Germans since the formation of the Empire in 1871.

Economic history

The timing and severity of the Imperial Depression varied substantially across countries. The Depression was particularly long and severe in Central Europe and especially the United States, which was still recovering from an unrelated economic depression that started in 1925; it was milder in Japan and much of the British Commonwealth. Perhaps not surprisingly, the worst depression ever experienced by the world economy stemmed from a multitude of causes. Global instability outbreaks of political violence in eastern Europe, subsequent reductions in international trade and investment, and misguided government policies caused economic output to fall in the German Empire, while the gold standard, which linked nearly all the countries of the world in a network of fixed currency exchange rates, played a key role in transmitting the German downturn to other countries. The recovery from the Great Depression was initially spurred by the revaluation of the Reichsmark against gold and the ensuing monetary expansion, and ultimately completed due to mobilization and increased military spending following the outbreak of the Second Weltkrieg. The economic impact of the Imperial Depression was enormous, including both extreme human suffering and profound changes in economic policy.

Timing and severity

The Imperial Depression began in the German Empire as a marked slowing of economic growth in the fall of 1935. The downturn became markedly worse, however, in early 1936 and continued until late 1938. Real output and prices fell precipitously. Between the peak and the trough of the downturn, industrial production in the German Empire declined 54 percent and real gross

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Yuan (Mongol) Empire c. 1300. By Encyclopædia Britannica
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OnThisDay Jan 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart, one of the world's most celebrated aviators, made the first successful solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance longer than that from the United States to Europe. Image: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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MRW the 1952 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is trying to tell me that nothing makes dollars
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Distribution of aboriginal South American and circum-Caribbean cultural groups. By Encyclopædia Britannica
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[November 27th, 1921] Surely, you can now afford to own the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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"MRW the 1952 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is trying to tell me that nothing makes dollars" by MBArceus in shittyreactiongifs
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Charles Darwin: HMS Beagle voyage. By Encyclopædia Britannica
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LPT: if you ever need to explain to anyone your “research”, use the Encyclopædia Britannica as your source

A quick search on the Watchtower’s online library for the phrase “Encyclopædia Britannica” yields 762 results. Most of these being direct citations used in their publications. So you can establish that this is a WT trusted source. Online you can go to the Britannica’s website and find condensed articles about just anything. For instance Nebuchadnezzar here: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nebuchadnezzar-II

That article shows an interesting tidbit about 607. Nothing happened regarding him and Jerusalem. But it does show that something significant happened in 586/587. Keep in mind this is not an “apostate” source. This is a trusted WT source that they’ve quoted directly hundreds of times. Other topics to look up? William Miller, Russell, Rutherford, and the list goes on. Use this to your advantage and watch the mental gymnastics begin.

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The most notorious political murder in recent American history occurred this day in 1963, when John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president (1961–63), was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, while riding in an open car. Source: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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The Encyclopædia Jerkannica Eleventh Edition contains a complete summary of information related to fitness and circlejerking, by Arthur_Dayne & Co. reddit.com/r/fitnesscircl…
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Thirty Years' War. Change of Territory at Westphalia. By Encyclopædia Britannica
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TIL Only two people are known to have read two independent editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enc…
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 4, Page 772, Year 1911: The Berlin Treaty boundary was far from corresponding with the ethnological limits of the Bulgarian race, which were more accurately defined by the abrogated treaty of San Stefano reddit.com/gallery/nc79lq
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The Argument. 1927 illustration for Encyclopædia Britannica.
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TIL the Yongle Encyclopedia was six times larger than the Encyclopædia Britannica despite being written 300+ years earlier. It was regarded as the world's largest encyclopedia from 1408 to 2007 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yon…
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The Edinburgh Encyclopædia was a competitor of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Edited by our own David Brewster, it was last published in 1830. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edi…
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Painting by Norman Rockwell for Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; whereabouts unknown. C.1920s.
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Just needed to write something over break. Referenced directly from Encyclopædia Britannica.
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TIL W. E. B. Du Bois envisioned "an Encyclopedia Africana," named like the Encyclopædia Britannica. Du Bois envisioned a scientific and comprehensive work on Africa and Africans that would refute the Enlightenment notion of blacks as devoid of civilization. Due to lack of support, the project died en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enc…
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Ulcinj u Encyclopædia Britannica iz 1911. en.wikisource.org/wiki/19…
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Encyclopædia Britannica on successes of Enver Hoxha's government

While the article about him, as usual, calls him a terrible dictator, it also contains this paragraph:

  Albania’s economy was revolutionized under Hoxha’s long rule. Farmland was confiscated from wealthy landowners and gathered into collective farms that eventually enabled Albania to become almost completely self-sufficient in food crops. Industry, which had previously been almost nonexistent, received huge amounts of investment, so that by the 1980s it had grown to contribute more than half of the gross national product. Electricity was brought to every rural district, epidemics of disease were stamped out, and illiteracy became a thing of the past.

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Why isn't the Android dictionary regularly updated to conform to an actual dictionary such as the Oxford, the Encyclopædia Britannica, or the Merriam Webster?

The amount of modern common use words that are not in Android's dictionary, even words that have been adopted into the English language, is pretty large. As one example, the word dumbed (as used in the accepted term "dumbed down") is not recognized. Would it not be a good idea to link these dictionaries in some way with a reputable dictionary? The Oxford English Dictionary would definitely be the best choice, as it is universally considered to be the "main historical dictionary of the English language"; if a word is going to be codified into the English language, the Oxford scholars are going to be the ones to make that decision. While I'm at it, does anyone know if the Android dictionary is the same as the one in Chrome?

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Tried to find an Ethnic map of the Southern Balkans that wasn't biased: Ethnic Composition of the Balkans, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
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Real-time count of how many books it would take to store all Wikipedia articles (where each book is roughly equal to a volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik…
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