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Mr. Spencer is a professor of history at Brock University and the editor in chief of “The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Mr. Haynes, of Portland, debuted in the W.W.F., which is today called World Wrestling Entertainment, in 1986, according to the book “WWE Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to World Wrestling Entertainment.”
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024
In 1956, he won a Navy talent contest as a singer and appeared on the “Ed Sullivan Show,” according to the 2007 book “The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2024
Easier than solving an Encyclopedia Brown-level clue in Book Scavenger.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Mr. Weasley had a cut lip and Mr. Malfoy had been hit in the eye by an Encyclopedia of Toadstools.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
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