In 1933, the The Encyclopædia Britannica became the first encyclopaedia to adopt "continuous revision", in which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted, with every article updated on a schedule.
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32 Facts About The Encyclopædia Britannica
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The The Encyclopædia Britannica articles are found in the and, which encompass 12 and 17 volumes, respectively, each volume having roughly one thousand pages.
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Information can be found in the The Encyclopædia Britannica by following the cross-references in the and ; however, these are sparse, averaging one cross-reference per page.
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The The Encyclopædia Britannica generally prefers British spelling over American; for example, it uses colour, centre, and encyclopaedia.
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British Children's The Encyclopædia Britannica edited by John Armitage was issued in London in 1960.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica introduced the Children's The Encyclopædia Britannica to the US market in 1988, aimed at ages seven to 14.
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My First The Encyclopædia Britannica is aimed at children ages six to 12, and the The Encyclopædia Britannica Discovery Library is for children aged three to six.
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The single-volume Britannica Concise Encyclopædia has 28,000 short articles condensing the larger 32-volume Britannica; there are authorized translations in languages such as Chinese and Vietnamese.
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Compton's by The Encyclopædia Britannica, first published in 2007, incorporating the former Compton's Encyclopedia, is aimed at 10- to 17-year-olds and consists of 26 volumes and 11,000 pages.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica publishes several specialized reference works, such as Shakespeare: The Essential Guide to the Life and Works of the Bard.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica Online is a website with more than 120,000 articles and is updated regularly.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica Insights was available as a Firefox extension but this was taken down due to a code review issue.
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Print version of the The Encyclopædia Britannica has 4,411 contributors, many eminent in their fields, such as Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman, astronomer Carl Sagan, and surgeon Michael DeBakey.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica began his career there in 1934, eventually earning the positions of treasurer, vice president, and chief financial officer in his 58 years with the company, before retiring in 1992.
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In January 1996, the The Encyclopædia Britannica was purchased from the Benton Foundation by billionaire Swiss financier Jacqui Safra, who serves as its current chair of the board.
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Nevertheless, from the 9th edition onwards, the The Encyclopædia Britannica was widely considered to have the greatest authority of any general English-language encyclopaedia, especially because of its broad coverage and eminent authors.
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The print version of the The Encyclopædia Britannica was significantly more expensive than its competitors.
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Since the early 1990s, the The Encyclopædia Britannica has faced new challenges from digital information sources.
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In rapidly changing fields such as science, technology, politics, culture and modern history, the The Encyclopædia Britannica has struggled to stay up to date, a problem first analysed systematically by its former editor Walter Yust.
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In 2013, the President of Encyclopædia Britannica announced that after 244 years, the encyclopedia would cease print production and all future editions would be entirely digital.
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The The Encyclopædia Britannica contains 100,000 articles and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus, and offers Primary and Secondary School editions.
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Since the 3rd edition, the The Encyclopædia Britannica has enjoyed a popular and critical reputation for general excellence.
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Writer George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition—except for the science articles—and Richard Evelyn Byrd took the The Encyclopædia Britannica as reading material for his five-month stay at the South Pole in 1934, while Philip Beaver read it during a sailing expedition.
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The bulk of the The Encyclopædia Britannica is devoted to geography, biography, biology and medicine, literature, physics and astronomy, religion, art, Western philosophy, and law.
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However, the The Encyclopædia Britannica has been lauded as the least biased of general Encyclopaedias marketed to Western readers and praised for its biographies of important women of all eras.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica has been issued in 15 editions, with multi-volume supplements to the 3rd and 4th editions.
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The history of the The Encyclopædia Britannica can be divided into five eras, punctuated by changes in management, or reorganization of the dictionary.
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Under Mortimer J Adler, the Britannica sought not only to be a good reference work and educational tool, but to systematize all human knowledge.
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In 1996, the The Encyclopædia Britannica was bought by Jacqui Safra at well below its estimated value, owing to the company's financial difficulties.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica will focus only on the online edition and other educational tools.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica was dedicated to the reigning British monarch from 1788 to 1901 and then, upon its sale to an American partnership, to the British monarch and the President of the United States.
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