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...most cherished accomplishment is helping to edit the Encyclopaedia Africana. Every people in the world had an encyclopedia but black people. There's an Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopaedia Britannica and finally, at the turn of the 21st century, we have one as well...
...role as a means to showcase local ingredients took hold and with it came a proliferation of new, sweet pies. A cookbook from 1796 listed only three types of sweet pies; a cookbook written in the late 1800s featured 8 sweet pie varieties; and by the 1947 the Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking listed 65 different varieties of sweet pies...
...history, culture and gender as they have traveled through time and how they exist now.A baffling, fascinating figure to the end, Conner twice insisted on memorializing himself based on an incorrectly predicted date of death. He had written his own obituary and wrote a description of himself for the encyclopedia “Who Was Who in America.” If Conner saw anything of his own end in those atomic explosions, it’s unlikely that a self-authored eulogy will surface to let us know about it. He requested that no funeral be given...
...capitalist and blogger who rose to fame at Apple. In his new book, Kawasaki takes the role of mentor and big brother to those in start-up mode or even restart mode. At times he sounds like an irreverent Silicon Valley Emily Post; his highly readable book is an encyclopedia of proper behavior for entrepreneurs. The author eagerly teaches readers "how to suck up to a blogger," "kick butt on a panel" and determine if the boss is a jerk...
...leaning toward Obama will walk into the voting booth and suddenly think, I cannot take four years of listening to that giant-eared nerd. Because people are starting to realize that Obama is not all that cool. He's earnest like C-3PO, emotionless like Spock, overly practical like Encyclopedia Brown and incredibly skinny like C-3PO, Spock and Encyclopedia Brown...