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...himself on his forceps. When the Nazi saw the forceps, he said: "How far am I from the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow? I am tired of the Nazis. [I want] to be a doctor. Already I have my first examination passed. I know the Pharmacopeia Britannica [guide to British drugs...
...bullfrog has protruding eyes and makes a loud, guttural noise, as if he owned the frog pond. He feeds on any living animal matter which he can swallow, and is in turn devoured by creatures stronger than he, such as snakes, fishes, herons, alligators, etc.-Encyclopaedia Britannica and other sources...
Hypnosis is a profoundly misunderstood phenomenon. In its ten paragraphs on the subject, Salter claims the Encyclopedia Britannica makes ten errors. Hypnotism was used in the early 19th Century to produce anesthesia for childbirth and surgery. Just when hypnotists were developing their techniques, and learning a little about the minds which they influenced, the anesthetic uses of chloroform and ether were discovered. So hypnosis, chloroformed, sank into a deep, troubled sleep...
...gooin-gill-gogery-coorin- dro-boohl-hlant-seeleo-gogo-goch).* He was engaged by the Government to train R. A. F. pilots to speak clearly by radio telephone. His pronunciation handbooks are regarded as standard for the King's English pure and undefiled, and he wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on pronunciation. Declaring that BBC announcers were "too haw haw" in their diction, he is responsible for the nickname "Lord Haw-Haw" given to Nazi Propagandist William Joyce...
...ships, submarines. The fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered; so was the big snow cruiser that Admiral Byrd shipped to Antarctica. But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase. In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rudolf Diesel's biography gets just six lines...