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Subterranea Britannica: underground explorers [Boing Boing]

Article: I was Googling to see how people used the word subterranea and I stumbled across the fantasitc Subterranea Britannica, the Web site for a 35-year-old society devoted to the study and investigation of man-made and...

A Polish Pope, Canada Votes, and the Iron Lady: Britannica.com Week in Preview: October 13-19

Thirty years ago this week, on October 16, 1978, Polish Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła was elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church, becoming John Paul II--the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and the first from a Slavic...

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is...

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No truce in the war of words

Ethnic cleansing. It’s a phrase connoting mass deportations and murder of one group by another. Britannica.com defines it as “the attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible...

The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile...

Librarians, Teachers, Administrators: Britannica offer titles that are award-winning; content that is curriculum aligned and recommended by teachers and industry leaders; and information that teachers, professors, and...

City Room: Bronx Is Up and the Battery’s Balsa

Detailed models of Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan made from balsa wood, in which three-eighths of an inch equals 100 feet, have been donated to the Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City. (Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New...

Which flavour does knowledge have on the web?

Oct 9, 2008

In recent debates within the KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki project , the need arose to further refine and find a common understanding of the type of knowledge that is (ideally) managed and processed using (semantic) wikis. One of...

Why We Need (but Need to Reform) the Electoral College

A simple modification of the Electoral College will cure its major defect without ruining its virtues. In a country as large, diverse, and multicultural as America, only a two-party electoral system can insure moderation and...

The Wall Street Panic of 2008 (at Motley Fool)

Panic: In economics, acute financial disturbance, such as widespread bank failures, feverish stock speculation followed by a market crash, or a climate of fear caused by economic crisis or the anticipation of such crisis. -- In...

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with...

debated last night in Nashville. Britannica provides background on the campaign in its election feature. Canada Election 2008 In North America's "other" election, Canadians go to the polls on October 14. Will they stay the...

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