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  1. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia. The company also owns the American dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster. Originally founded in Edinburgh, Scotland and historically British, the company is now based in Chicago, Illinois, in ...

  2. The seventh edition, published in 1881, grouped the poems in their final order. Now 72 years old, Whitman prepared a final edition, published in January 1892 just a couple of months before his death. The “deathbed” edition of Leaves of Grass featured 389 poems and an updated illustration of the poet, 37 years after the first edition.

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  4. Encyclopaedia Britannica is the oldest English-language general encyclopedia. The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, and its first digital version debuted in 1981. In 1994 Britannica released the first Internet-based encyclopedia, and Britannica.com was launched in 1999. Britannica relies on outside experts and its own editors to write ...

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  5. Britannica’s media editors produce and acquire images, maps, videos, and more for Britannica’s products. Britannica’s World Data editors research and compile statistical information using a variety of authoritative sources. But Britannica is not just its editorial staff. Britannica has long fostered vigorous interaction between its staff ...

  6. The Britannica was the idea of Colin Macfarquhar, a bookseller and printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver, both of Edinburgh. They conceived of the Britannica as a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot (published 1751–1766), which was widely viewed as heretical.

  7. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated, 2017 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 880 pages In addition to keeping the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' updated, this book serves as a great reference source for the latest news on the ever-changing populations, governments and economies throughout the world.

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