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...with his band, helped create a sound that still echoes through history like thunder across the sky. The original song they recorded, Rocket 88, may well have been the first rock 'n' roll record, and in the years that followed, innumerable music reference sources, from The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll ("frequently cited as the first rock & roll record") to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum ("widely considered the first rock and roll record"), have backed up that title...
...Bill and Melinda have since invested far more than money. They have put their impressive intellects and energies behind their philanthropic works. Bill has become a walking encyclopedia of medical knowledge. He reads many thousands of pages annually so that he can learn how to attack the world's most dangerous illnesses. I have heard him speak many times on this subject and each time have been amazed by the breadth of his knowledge. Melinda, for her part, travels the world so that she can understand what a check from Seattle is actually accomplishing 10,000 miles away. She insists...
...husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter, laundress, housecleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman. If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... Spotted through...
...evidently, neither Monseigneur Sheehan nor anyone on the UM’s membership committee consulted The Encyclopedia of American Religions, one of the official reference books listed in the UM’s bylaws. This book—and indeed even a cursory Google search—would have explained that Province churches were actually not Anglican but Episcopalian. The sect split from mainstream Episcopalians in the late-1970s (with the Province churches retaining a more orthodox doctrine). With different dioceses, liturgies and increasingly different theologies, Province churches cater to a completely different crowd of worshippers...
...books into a database, and it now lets customers search the books' complete contents online. In one stroke, Amazon made a new and immensely valuable kind of information available on the Web. Zenodotus would be livid with envy. "I would compare it to the invention of the encyclopedia," says Joel Mokyr, professor of economics and history at Northwestern University. "If this is further developed, as I hope it will be, you may one day be able to sit in a village in Nepal and look up every book in the Library of Congress! Think about the implications of that...