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11 hours ago · Britannica (1769-71) Encyclopædia Britannica or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a new Plan. In which the different Sciences and Arts are digested into distinct Treatises or Systems: and the various Technical Terms &c. are explained as they occur in the order of the alphabet.
ELI22 or smth: the best distinction I can find between a kingdom and an empire is that a king rules over only his own people, while an empire rules other cultures/peoples/nations for the benefit of the "home" nation. England was a kingdom when it was just England, but an empire when it ruled India too.
11 hours ago · According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica: logical positivism … was characterized by the view that scientific knowledge is the only kind of factual knowledge and that all traditional metaphysical doctrines are to be rejected as meaningless.
11 hours ago · The Encyclopaedia Britannica for 1879 explains the modern method of producing 'hard pitch': 'If the heat is forced, and the distillation [sc. of coal-tar] continued, a large amount of 'heavy' or 'dead oils' is obtained, and the mass left in the still is 'hard pitch'.' [OED, Hard].
11 hours ago · The word maroon is derived from the French word “marron,” which translates to “runaway black slave” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. In Florida, maroon communities consisted of formerly enslaved individuals, Native Americans, and even Cuban descendants. These individuals were lawfully free and protected by the Spanish government.
11 hours ago · a mandatory depth study in history stage 5
11 hours ago · Life Omar Khayyam was born in Nishapur —a metropolis in Khorasan province, of Persian stock, in 1048. In medieval Persian texts he is usually simply called Omar Khayyam. : 658 [c] Although open to doubt, it has often been assumed that his forebears followed the trade of tent-making, since Khayyam means 'tent-maker' in Arabic. : 30 The historian Bayhaqi, who was personally acquainted with ...
