#Encyclopedia Britannica

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American Buffalo - History and Struggle for Survival, Encyclopedia Britannica 

#educational film #buffalo #gif #Encyclopedia Britannica #nature films

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May I submit The Council for sharing toads

(left to right: Encyclopedia Britannica, Cliffnotes, and Thesaurus)

LOG GATHERING!!! MEETING OF THE MINDS….

What inspiring names for a very intellectual bunch. Thesaurus looks positively rancorous in this image

#others toads #toad #toads #cliff notes #thesaurus #encyclopedia britannica

[nemfrog]

Clouds. Supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. vol. 3. 1824.

Internet Archive

#weather #clouds #encyclopedia britannica #encyclopedia illustration #diagram #nemfrog #1824 #19th century

[mapsontheweb]

Japanese Empire, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1870-1942.

#maps #encyclopedia britannica #japanese empire

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MY ELBOW HURTS SO BAD FOR NO REASON THIS BLOWS!!!! 👎👎👎👎👎👎

#who needs elbows anyway #elbow macaroni #pasta #diy crafts #paint #dark academia #horses #acrylic nails #encyclopedia britannica #physics #i need ibuprofen or something

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@Urja Bhatt

See more like this.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

Borges was appointed director of the National Library in 1955 after Perón was deposed by a military junta. Despite knowing the new government chose him “for reasons more political than literary,” he was still delighted by the appointment, he said in a 1977 lecture. Yet by the time he assumed his position, he could no longer see well enough to read. He describes his reaction:

“Little by little I came to realize the strange irony of events. I had always imagined paradise as a kind of library. Others think of a garden or of a palace. There I was, the center, in a way, of nine hundred thousand books in various languages, but I found I could barely make out the title pages and the spines…Those two gifts contradicted each other: the countless books and the night.”

In the same lecture Borges recalled visiting the library as a child with his father. Too shy to request books from the librarians, he browsed volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica sitting on the open shelves. His practice was to choose a volume at random, a method that did not guarantee results: “I remember one night when I was particularly rewarded, for I read three articles: on the Druids, the Druses, and Dryden—a gift of the letter dr.”

— Madeline Grimm, “A Jorge Luis Borges Reading List” featured on Lapham’s Quarterly

#Jorge Luis Borges #Madeline Grimm #Encyclopedia Britannica #Lapham's Quarterly

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Lit candles in a cemetery commemorating All Saints' Day - Britannica

#Feast of All Saints #Hallowmas #november 1st #encyclopedia britannica

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The Night of the Hunter

Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter (1955), directed and cowritten by Charles Laughton.

© 1955 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc

#The Night of the Hunter #Robert Mitchum #1955 #1950s #Charles Laugton #Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc #Shelley Winters #ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

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#Ancestral Connections #Germanic Folk Tradition #Rhineland-Palatinate History & Culture #Encyclopedia Britannica #Tumblr Staff Has Ruined Links Now And I Hate Them For It #Bookshelf

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‘All the Knowledge in the World’ Review: The Encyclopedia Eternal

From Denis Diderot to Wikipedia, surveying our attempt to collect the sum of human wisdom in a single place.

by Joseph Epstein

In a YouTube video called “Teens React to Encyclopedias,” one kid comes up with the definition of encyclopedia as “the internet in books”; another says that “it was Google way back in the day. . . it was the worst of times.” Had they known more, these kids might have added that the internet has killed the encyclopedia, turning it into a historical but no longer active form, like verse drama or epic poetry.

The life and death of the encyclopedia is recounted in Simon Garfield’s excellent new book. Mr. Garfield, an Englishman in his early 60s, is lucid, witty, learned and clearly a bibliomaniac, who has also written books on, among other subjects, cartography and typography. In “All the Knowledge in the World,” he has produced a lively threnody to the encyclopedic impulse, or the powerful desire to grasp and encapsulate everything that is known within a single book or set of books.

A lively threnody may seem an oxymoron, but Mr. Garfield both loves encyclopedias and bewails their demise. “This book is as much about the value of considered learning as it is about encyclopedias themselves,” he writes in his introduction. In his closing page, he adds: “This book has not been a history of knowledge, but it has tracked how one aspect of our knowledge has been communicated, circumscribed, and passed on.” That aspect is the printed encyclopedia, R.I.P.

“All the Knowledge in the World” provides a survey of the encyclopedic impulse from its beginning with Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia,” a work not organized alphabetically and without that hallmark of encyclopedias, cross-references. As Mr. Garfield has it, “in one sense it was the Great Library of Alexandria arrayed along a single shelf.”

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#encyclopedia #reference book #encyclopedia britannica #librarians

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Jackson Pollock – Number 1A, 1948

1948

#history #vintage #art #youtube #video #link #article #writing #website #encyclopedia britannica #museum of modern art #jackson pollock #1940s #1948 #painter #painting #modern art #modernism #number 1a #art history #american art

[wordsmithnikki]

REBLOG: Mr Wapojif on Annie Rauwerda and her Depths of Wikipedia – Happy Wikipedia Day

It’s Wikipedia’s 23rd birthday! It's the world’s biggest and most used online reference tool. Let's celebrate the strange and obscure depths of Wikipedia via a repost from the archives of Mr Wapojif’s blog Professional Moron on Annie Rauwerda...

It’s Wikipedia’s 23rd birthday! It’s the world’s biggest and most used online reference tool. Wikipedia’s neutral and plural point of view means it is good for news too. Let’s celebrate the strange and obscure depths of Wikipedia via a repost from the archives of Mr Wapojif’s blog Professional Moron on Annie Rauwerda. Hint Mr Wapojif is not a professional moron. He’s actually quite an…

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#Alex Morris #Annie Rauwerda #British Library #Depths of Wikipedia #Encyclopedia Britannica #Jimmy Wales #Library of Congress #Professional Moron #Wikipedia

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just wanted to let y’all know that if you hate the fact wedding dresses are almost always white in western culture, you can blame the British monarchy.

specifically Queen Victoria.

#brides used to wear all sorts of colors #that weren’t as hard to keep clean #and could be worn again later #end the trend #fight the system #down with the monarchy #thanks victoria #british royalty #wedding dresses #encyclopedia britannica

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Have a great Social Guidance Sunday cult film fans! Here's the short film Why Vandalism? (1955) and some fan art inspired by it!

#social guidance sunday #why vandalism #why vandalism 1955 #why vandalism? #social guidance film #classroom film #vandalism #juvenile delinquency #ephemeral film #encyclopedia britannica #short film #1950s #movie art #art #drawing #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film #Youtube

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Was checking out the myth of sysiphus and stumbled into theater of the absurd on encyclopedia's nihilism page...

Not sure how I got from there to the esoteric archives page but I'm taking it as a sign that I should dive in

#only wish these pages had an audio feature #interrupted painting by strange magics #esoteric archives #encyclopedia britannica #nihilism #absurdist theater #absurdism #absurdist thought #unexpected #strange magic #writing