Word: encarta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...WHAT? Does it sometimes seem that the 74 English-speaking countries are separated by a common language? Encarta has created the first world English dictionary. We asked them for some help. Here's the resulting glossolalia glossary...
...race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...
...Encarta Africana features video tours of important sites in black culture, including Timbuktu and Harlem...
Gates added that one goal is to give blacks a sense of their own history, dating as far back as black pharoahs from the Kush empire near Egypt, all of whom can be found in Encarta Africana...
Gates predicted that the Encarta Africana will help fight racism by educating people from an early age. A second edition of the encyclopedia will be released this fall...