Encyclopaedia

Ash (Æ, æ; pronounced [æʃ]) is a letter of the Latin alphabet for English. It is formed as a ligature of the letters a and e. In Modern English, usage varies in different places. It is mainly used in words derived from Latin, such as encyclopædia, nebulæ and athenæum. In some places such as the United States, such spellings may be considered archaic and replaced with encyclopedia and atheneum, respectively. In the United Kingd ...

Including:

Read more here: » Æ: Encyclopedia - Æ

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia (alternatively encyclopaedia) is a written compendium of knowledge. The term comes from the Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία (engkuklios paideia), literally "a rounded education." Some encyclopedias are titled cyclopaedia, a now somewhat archaic form of the word. For a list of notable encyclopedia in history, see list of encyclopedias. Encyclopedia - General definition. Four major elements define an ...

Including:

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Childebrand

Childebrand (678, Heristal-751) was a Frankish duke (dux), son of Pepin of Heristal and Plectrude, half-brother of Charles Martel. He married Emma of Austrasia and was given Burgundy by his father. He distinguished himself in the expulsion of the Saracens from France. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. Other related archives678, 751, Burgundy, Charles Martel, France, Frankish, Heristal, Pepin of Heristal

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - World Brain

In 1938, aged 72, English writer H. G. Wells published a little book of essays and speeches titled World Brain. One essay titled "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia" is remarkable in presenting a vision very similar to Wikipedia. This essay first appeared in the new Encyclopédie Française, August, 1937. The essay "The Brain Organization of the Modern World" lays out Wells' vision for "...a sort of mental clearing house for the mind, a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, ...

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Chess game collection

The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player (e.g. My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 by Alexander Alekhine), annotations of games from a single tournament, collections of chess games covering a certain period of time (e.g. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games. Vol.1 1485-1866 by Levy and O'Connell), opening move collections, or collections centered on tactical or strategic themes (e.g. games involving a fork as one of the decisive moves of the game). Chess Informant is a series which collects the best chess games for a ...

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - William Robertson Smith

William Robertson Smith (8 November 1846–31 March 1894) was a Scottish philologist, physicist, archaeologist, and Biblical critic best known for his work on the Encyclopædia Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites, which is considered a foundational text in the comparative study of religion. Smith was born in Aberdeenshire and demonstrated a quick intellect at an early age. After being home-schooled he began attending New College, Edinburgh in 1866. After graduation he took up a chair in Hebrew at the A ...

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - William Chittick

William C. Chittick is a renowned Islamologist. Born in Connecticut, he completed a Ph.D. in Persian literature at Tehran University in 1974. He then taught comparative religion in the humanities department at Tehran's Aryamehr Technical University and left Iran just before the revolution in 1979. He has also served as assistant editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and is currently professor of religious studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Professor Chittick is author and translator of twenty books and over one hu ...

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - December 6

December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining. December 6 - Events. 963 - Leo VIII is elected Pope. 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan. 1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar. 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is ...

Including:

December 6 - Undated deaths

December 6 - Holidays and observances

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Aegea

Aegea is a back-formation from "Aegean", the sea that was named for an eponymous Aegeus in early levels of Greek mythology. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) mentioned an Aegea, queen of the Amazons, as an alternative eponym of the Aegean Sea, and Aegea was the name of the wife of the Roman proconsul of Achaia whom the apostle Andrew converted and baptised, according to Jacob de Voragine's Golden Legend, De Sancto Andrea Apostolo. "Aegea" is found in modern baby-name b ...

Read more here: » Aegea: Encyclopedia - Aegea

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Republic

In a broad definition, a republic is a state whose political organization rests on the principle that the citizens or electorate constitute the ultimate root of legitimacy and sovereignty. Several definitions, including that of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, stress the importance of autonomy and the 'rule of law' as part of the requirements for a Republic.[1] Nonetheless, in practice most nations that do not have a hereditary monarch ...

Including:

Republic - Characteristics of republics

Read more here: » Republic: Encyclopedia - Republic

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Obelisk

An obelisk is a tall, thin, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramidal top. Ancient obelisks were made of a single piece of stone (a monolith). The term stela (plural stelae) is generally used for other monumental standing inscribed sculpted stones not of classic obelisk form. Obelisk - Ancient obelisks. Obelisk - Egyptian obelisks. In 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica wrote, "The earliest TEMPLE obelisk still in position is that of Senwosri I. of ...

Including:

Obelisk - Ancient obelisks

Read more here: » Obelisk: Encyclopedia - Obelisk

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Sanchuniathon

Sanchuniathon or Sanchoniathon or Sanchoniatho is the purported Phoenician author of three lost works originally in Phoenician, surviving only in partial paraphrase and summary of a Greek translation by Philo of Byblos, according to the Christian bishop Eusebius of Caesarea. These few fragments comprise the most extended literary source concerning Phoenician religion in either Greek or Latin. Sanchuniathon - The author. The compilers of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica warned that Sanc ...

Including:

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Mountain

A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. A mountain is generally higher and steeper than a hill, but there is considerable overlap, and usage often depends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain as a peak with a topographic prominence over an arbitrary value: for example, the Encyclopædia Britannica requires a prominence of 2,000 feet (610 m). 24% of the Earth's land mass is mountainous; 10% of the world's 6 billion people live in mountainous regions. All the world's major rivers are fed from mountain sources, and more than half ...

Including:

Read more here: » Mountain: Encyclopedia - Mountain

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia - Antoine Court de Gebelin

Antoine Court who named himself Antoine Court de Gébelin ( ca.1719 – May 10, 1784) was the Swiss former Protestant pastor, born at Nimes (Encyclopædia Britannica), who initiated the interpretation of the Tarot as an arcane repository of timeless esoteric wisdom, in an essay included in his Le Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne ("The Primitive World, Analyzed and Compared to the Modern World"), volume viii, 1781. The chapter on Tarot with which his name is indelibly associated is a single section in his vast compendium that he published in series from 177 ...

Including:

Antoine Court de Gebelin - Reference

Encyclopaedia: Encyclopedia II - Encyclopædia Britannica - Edition history

vol. = volume, sup. = supplement 1 Supplement to the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. With preliminary dissertations on the history of the sciences. 28th to 14th editions included a separate index volume. 39th ed. featured articles by notables of the day, such as James Maxwell on electricity and magnetism, and William Thomson (who became Lord Kelvin) on heat. 410th ed. included a maps volume and a cumulative index volume for the 9 ...

Dream Sharing Forum

Encyclopaedia

A Wisdom Archive on Encyclopaedia

ARTICLES RELATED TO Encyclopaedia

Including:

Including:

Including:

Including:

Including:

Including:

Including:

Including:

See also:

See also:

See also:

See also:

See also:

See also:

See also:

Rate this archive!