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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Mortimer J. Adler, History of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Propaedia, William Robertson Smith, J. Gordon Melton, Robert McHenry, Joseph McCabe, Fat h-Ali Shah Qajar, James Tytler, James Louis Garvin, Harry Ashmore, Dobson's Encyclopaedia, A. J. Jacobs, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., William Smellie, William Benton, Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Bicentennial of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, Warren E. Preece, Jorge Cauz, Arthur Twining Hadley, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, Archibald Constable, Hugh Chisholm, George Gleig, Thomas Stewart Traill, Horace Everett Hooper, Britannica.com Inc., Compton's Encyclopedia, Thomas Dobson, Chambers's Encyclopaedia, William Haley, A & C Black, Andrew Bell, Jacqui Safra, Christine Sutton, Thomas Spencer Baynes, Macropaedia, Gazetteer for Scotland, Macvey Napier, Harvey Einbinder, Franklin Henry Hooper, James Browne, Micropaedia, Philip W. Goetz, Ilan Yeshua, Amos Urban Shirk, Walter Yust, Colin Macfarquhar, Charles Maclaren, Staff of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Thomas Bonar, Elkan Harrison Powell, Dale Hoiberg, Herman Kogan, Don Yannias, 10 Eventful Years, Theodore Pappas, James Millar. Excerpt: The Encyclopaedia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors. It is regarded as one of the most scholarly of encyclopaedias. The Britannica is the oldest English-language encyclopaedia still in print. It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland as three