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Encyclopedias provide basic information, explanations, and definitions of virtually every topic, concept, country, institution, historical person or movement, and cultural artifact imaginable.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Encyclopedias, being time sensitive, are the most ephemeral of imposing objects.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2014

Everything you ever wanted to know about the unknown Encyclopedias from Pliny's Historia naturalis of A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

Encyclopedias were available to 62 bad children, to 47 good children.

From Time Magazine Archive

Encyclopedias and the tonnage of learning properly take their places on the lowest shelves, for their lump and mass make a fitting foundation.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)