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...Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite 2004 DVD With more than 100,000 articles on everything from alpaca to Zionism, this encyclopedia ($70) is by far the most comprehensive. I especially enjoyed original articles (commissioned for print editions eons ago) by the likes of Sigmund Freud and Harry Houdini. To my surprise, however, I preferred the online version, at britannica.com It is easier to search and has many of the videos and photos featured on the DVD. It also deftly integrates thousands of external links (reviewed by Britannica editors). A one-year subscription costs...
Ferguson’s conclusion brings his argument into the contemporary debate over the American Empire. He argues that the worlds needs the steadying hand once provided by the Pax Britannica. Now, the United States alone can provide such a force...
...occasionally, to eat. In 1804 George Brookshaw, a London cabinetmaker who specialized in furniture adorned with paintings of fruit, turned his full attention to cataloguing and depicting fruit. His primary mission was to educate. "Some of our best fruits have been suffered to be neglected," he wrote. Pomona Britannica, published in 1812 and reprinted for the first time this season (Taschen; 200 pages), was his effort to right that wrong. An extravagant p.r. brochure for fruit, Brookshaw's best-of list featured 90 plates showing 256 varieties of 15 different species of fruit and nut. The plates of fruits...
...scholar and sometimes forgot that all of us lived in the twentieth century. He would, over a glass of sherry, refer to the traffic along the river as those boxes traveling from nowhere to some place else! Also resident in Eliot House was a senior editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He used to do his morning exercises in the buff and one day the biddy (a term used to describe the wonderful Irish maids who, as long as the remuneration was adequate, looked after the students) walked into his room using her latchkey and found him on the floor...
Sources: AP, GlobalSecurity.org USGS, United Nations Mine Action Program, CIA World Factbook, Encyclopaedia Britannica...