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...dictionary definitions and encyclopedia articles culled from resources licensed from a variety of publishers. The site draws heavily from Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia written entirely by volunteers-anybody can contribute or edit articles, and some 16,000 have (there are 500,000 entries in English; the 2005 Encyclopaedia Brittanica has 65,000). See here for more on the wiki phenomenon. Answers.com also provides free plug-ins you can download to your desktop for even quicker access to these fast facts...
...source compared the product which his company offers with that of Cliff's Notes and Encyclopedia Brittanica...
...example, the NGI will be able to transmit the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica in under one second, and defense agencies will be able to coordinate data from multiple satellites in order to gain "information dominance...
...addition, Leyser wrote the section on medieval German history for the years 900 through 1250 for the most recent edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica...
More persistent than Banquo's ghost or a Brittanica salesman, the phenomenon of the Hollywood Ten trial, and the terrible trouble people with a past encountered in the 1940s and '50s, still dogs us almost thirty years after it started. Each time it shows up it invokes terrible bitterness that doesn't seem to subside with time. Even the week before last The New York Times devoted a series of spreads to a bout between two old birds (Lillian Hellman and Diana Trilling) slugging it out for whatever audience still wants to know who acted badly during the bad times...