Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea was rejected by several companies, including MacMillan and Voyager. Prodigy rejected the idea of developing the encyclopedia through the Internet...
...After Encyclopedia Britannica rejected the idea in the 1970s, they did not work on it again until 1995, Gates said...
...video clips include segments of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 talking about freedom, actor Whoopi Goldberg on race, Jones discussing music, poet Maya Angelou speaking about the black diaspora and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan discussing Africa. Appiah and Gates also have a clip on the encyclopedia's origins...
Originally, Appiah said, DuBois wrote to 100 people, asking them to be on the encyclopedia's editorial board. Everyone accepted, except, ironically, then-Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, who said he was too busy...
dream," said Winbush, who was critical ofMicrosoft's mainstream market approach. "DuBoiswanted Encyclopedia Africana to define the worldfrom an African perspective. I think from anAfrican point of view, it has to be moreaggressive in discussion of Europeancolonization...