Word: encyclopaedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hundred twenty-five years ago, Encyclopaedia Britannica published its first edition. Shortly afterwards, Joseph Connors opened a display at the Coop...
Tucked in a corner on the first floor of the Coop's book building, Connors and his Encyclopaedia Britannica display await fact-grubbing customers. The former history teacher has been inviting curious onlookers to sit down and talk reference books for more than thirteen years...
...like it very much," Connors says of his job. He says he takes pride in running the nation's only permanent Encyclopaedia Britannica display in a bookstore. On the job, Connors gets the opportunity to meet celebrities, business leaders and heads of state--and sell them encyclopedia sets...
...College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital who had developed a procedure for rapidly spotting the cystic fibrosis defect in a single strand of DNA, using the gene- cloning technique called polymerase chain reaction. "It's like finding one typographical error in a book 180 times the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in about six hours," says Dr. Mark Hughes, director of Baylor's Prenatal Genetics Center...
Encyclopedias, according to the encyclopedia, are books containing basic knowledge in all areas of life. Many publications have answered that description in their time, from the medieval compendiums to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in 1768, to three contemporary one-volume works. Which one of that trio is best? It depends on the size of the reader's requirements, bank account and bookshelf...