Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest English-language general encyclopaedia. The Encyclopædia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, Scotland. Who made the first encyclopedia? The “Natural History” of Pliny the Elder is generally considered the first ency...
In 1906 a further modification took place in the shape of the final and complete repayment of the priority bonds by the additional issue of £T9,537,000 of unified bonds for the purpose, taken firm by the Ottoman bank at 86. The rate at which the exchange was effected was par with ...
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Britannica Quiz Science at Random Quiz Wren, Christopher Sir Christopher Wren, founder of the Royal Society.(more) From the outset the society aspired to combine the role of research institute with that of clearinghouse for knowledge and forum for arbitration, though the latter function became dom...
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(Read George Bernard Shaw’s 1926 Britannica essay on socialism.) Bernstein was born into a Jewish family that had come to the capital of Prussia from Danzig. His father was a railroad engineer, and his uncle Aaron Bernstein was the editor of the Berliner Volks-Zeitung, a newspaper widely ...