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3 unusual facts about Collier's Encyclopedia


Collier's Encyclopedia

A well-known comparison is that of Kenneth Kister, who gave a qualitative and quantitative comparison of Collier's Encyclopedia with two comparable encyclopaedias, Encyclopædia Britannica and the Encyclopedia Americana.

After a more thorough qualitative comparison of all three encyclopedias, Kister recommended Collier's Encyclopedia primarily on the strength of its writing, presentation and navigation.

Ronald Verlin Cassill

Cassill worked as an editor for the Western Review of Iowa City from 1951 to 1952, Collier's Encyclopedia from 1953 to 1954, and Dude and Gent in 1958.


1699 in literature

John Oldmixon – Reflections on the Stage, and Mr Collier's Defence of the Short View

Aristes, Pennsylvania

Notable victims of the crash included Broadway theatre impresario Earl Carroll and his girlfriend, actress Beryl Wallace; Henry L. Jackson, men's fashion editor of Collier's Weekly magazine and co-founder of Esquire Magazine; and Venita Varden Oakie, the former wife of actor Jack Oakie.

Barron Collier

Collier was an avid fisherman and established the Izaak Walton Club at their Useppa Island resort.

Bernard Walke

With Gerard Collier he organised prayer meetings for out-of-work miners at the Friends' Meeting House in Redruth.

Byron Farwell

He published articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, American Heritage, Harper's, Horizon, Smithsonian Magazine as well as serving as a contributing editor to Military History, World War II, and Collier's Encyclopedia.

Bywell Castle

Bywell Castle gave its name to a collier which ploughed into the SS Princess Alice on the River Thames in September 1878, sinking her within minutes.

Carversville, Pennsylvania

Mr. Hargens painted covers for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, The Open Road for Boys and many western novels of the 1930s and 1940s.

Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester

Through her son, Charles, Lord Portmore, she was the grandmother of Elizabeth Collier, wife of Dr Erasmus Darwin, the physician, scientist, poet and grandfather of Charles Darwin.

Chester William Harrison

His Collier's Weekly two part magazine story Petticoat Brigade was purchased by Audie Murphy and co-produced with Harry Joe Brown as the 1957 film The Guns of Fort Petticoat.

Collier Hill

With an affinity for travelling and running on new venues, Collier Hill was shipped to Germany, where he won the 2005 Group 2 Gerling-Preis in Cologne and finished second in the Group 1 Deutschland-Preis at Düsseldorf.

Colubrina asiatica

It has been found in the southern part of the Florida peninsula, including in Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier, Lee and Martin counties, and in the Florida Keys (Monroe County).

Constance Collier

In 1935, upon her arrival in Hollywood, Luise Rainer hired Collier to improve Rainer's theatre acting and English, and to learn the basics of film acting.

On 27 December 1906, Beerbohm Tree's extravagant revival of Antony and Cleopatra opened at His Majesty's Theatre, with Tree as Mark Antony and Constance Collier as Cleopatra, a performance for which she received much critical praise.

Dean McKeown

Riding Collier Hill, McKeown won a number of major international races, including the 2005 Group 2 Gerling-Preis in Cologne, Germany, the C$2 million Grade 1 Canadian International at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada, and the HK$14 million Hong Kong Vase in Hong Kong, China.

Diana Barrymore

However, alcohol and drug problems soon emerged and negative publicity from major media sources dampened her prospects with widely read magazines such as Collier's Weekly, writing about her conduct in an October 1942 article titled "The Barrymore Brat".

Edie and the Eggs

Edie and the Eggs included future Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock and Ann Collier, guitar player of Rhumboogie, a well-known all-female Rock and Roll band during 1974-78 from Baltimore.

Elizabeth Rayner

Through her sister Susanna Collier, Mrs John Lewis, Mrs Rayner was the great aunt of Peter Burrell Jr., whose second daughter Isabella, married Lord Algernon Percy; Burrell's third daughter, Frances, married Hugh Percy, later 2nd Duke of Northumberland.

Eugen Weidmann

Comments On Cain by F. Tennyson Jesse (New York: Collier Books; London: Collier-Macmillan, Ltd., 1948, 1964), 158p.

Frederick Bakewell

Frederick Collier Bakewell (29 September 1800 – 26 September 1869) was an English physicist who improved on the concept of the facsimile machine introduced by Alexander Bain in 1842 and demonstrated a working laboratory version at the 1851 World's Fair in London.

Gordon Manning

After the war, Manning worked in a series of menial editing jobs until he was assigned to write a feature article on New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra for Collier's magazine.

Hagar Wilde

Her work includes co-writing the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby (for which she had also written the original story, published in the mass-market magazine Collier's Weekly), starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and was directed by Howard Hawks, and the screenplay for I Was a Male War Bride, also starring Cary Grant and again directed by Howard Hawks as well as co-wrote The Unseen.

Hangman Books

Hangman Books has published poetry books and pamphlets by Billy Childish, Tracey Emin, Bill Lewis, Vic Templer, Joe Corkwell, Sexton Ming, Philip Absolon, Chris Broderick, Mark Lowe, Neil Sparks, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Dan Melchior, Dan Belton, Alfie Howard, Simon Robson, Steve Prince, Joe Machine, Wolf Howard and Amanda Collier, among others.

Harry Sylvester

His stories were published in popular magazines such as Collier's, Esquire and Commonweal, publishing over 150 short stories.

Howard Brubaker

Howard Brubaker (d. 1957) was an editor of Success and Liberator and a contributor to the New Yorker, Collier's Weekly, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and many other magazines.

I'd Rather Be Right

H. G. Wells wrote enthusiastically about the musical, and Cohan's performance as Roosevelt, in an article "The Fall in America 1937", published in Collier's on 28 January 1938 and reprinted in his World Brain (1938).

Jeffrey Collier

After two Daytona poles, a NASCAR Dash Series record and a World record, the Ford Probe driven by Collier was retired from competition.

Jill the Reckless

It was serialised in Collier's (US) between 10 April and 28 August 1920, in Maclean's (Canada) between 1 August and 15 November 1920, in both cases as The Little Warrior, and, as Jill the Reckless, in the Grand Magazine (UK), from September 1920 to June 1921.

Lawrence Fried

Lawrence Fried (b.June 28, 1926 – d.1983), was an American photo-journalists, whose work appeared in Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Vogue, Collier's, and Parade Magazine.

Maggie Barry

Featured were ‘bug man’ Ruud Kleinpaste, gardening experts Bill Ward, Jack Hobbs, Gordon Collier and Professor Thomas William Walker ("John Walker").

Matthew S. Collier

Collier received word of a major oil spill on the Flint River; attended a previously planned (by the previous administration) press conference with the then-Governor of Michigan, James Blanchard; discovered that the news media had received the first “news leak” of his administration; and attended a dinner party with the private knowledge of a death-threat phoned into his office against him.

Noel Stirling Austin Arnold Wallinger

He was born in London, the son of James Nasmyth Wallinger and Marian Collier, and was educated at the King's College School in London and the Royal Agricultural College.

P. aurantiaca

Pilosella aurantiaca, the fox-and-cubs, orange hawkweed, tawny Hawkweed, Devil's paintbrush or Grim-the-collier, a flowering plant species native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe

Robert Arthur, Jr.

Between 1930 and 1940, his stories were published in Amazing Stories, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Black Mask, Collier's, Detective Fiction Weekly, Detective Tales, Double Detective, The Illustrated Detective Magazine, Mystery, The Phantom Detective, The Shadow, Startling Stories, Street & Smith Mystery Reader, Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Unknown Worlds and Wonder Stories.

Robert Collier

Rob James-Collier, British actor, currently in Coronation Street

Romantic St.

The song was composed and arranged by a team of songwriters including Matthew Heath, Hailey Collier, DK, Jordan Kyle, Hyuk Shin and Jee Yoon Yoo.

Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

In 1932, the London Power Company commemorated Sebastian de Ferranti by naming a new 1,315 GRT coastal collier SS Ferranti.

Sophia Collier

After the sale, Collier became an artist and established a studio and gallery in Sausalito, CA making sculptural reliefs of water surfaces with properties analogous to the intentions of the Light and Space Movement.

Sulamith Ish-kishor

Her now-classic story of a long-distance correspondence and its fateful conclusion, "The Rose," was published in a 1943 edition of Collier's and was subsequently plagiarized by preacher-author Max Lucado in a 1992 collection.

The Rainbow People

Collier says, "The era of the Rainbow People opened with the coronation of a prince called 'Tum-Tum' as Britain's Edward VII in 1902 and closed in 1975 with the death of Aristotle Onassis, dubbed 'Daddy-O' by Women's Wear Daily."

Tom Collier

The year 2004 saw the release of Collier's album Mallet Jazz, another instrumental showcase in which he is joined by fellow session musicians from throughout his career, such as percussion hall-of-famer Emil Richards on marimba, Joe Porcaro and John Bishop on drums, and Mike Lang and Don Grusin on piano.

United Airlines Flight 624

Among the passengers were Broadway theatre impresario Earl Carroll and his girlfriend, actress Beryl Wallace; Henry L. Jackson, men's fashion editor of Collier's Weekly magazine and co-founder of Esquire Magazine; and Venita Varden Oakie, the former wife of actor Jack Oakie.

Useppa Island

Jerald Milanich and Jefferson Chapman conducted more extensive excavations on Collier Mound and adjacent middens in 1979 and 1980, using a backhoe to dig trenches in mound and middens.

W. C. Heinz

He was a regular contributor to magazines such as SPORT magazine, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, “True", "Collier's", and Look. The best of his magazine and newspaper pieces are published in his books "American Mirror" and "What A Time It Was: The Best of W.C. Heinz on Sports.

Wallace Morgan

Shortly thereafter Collier's commissioned him and Julian Bond to tour the United States and report their findings in words and pictures.

William Parkyns

At the place of execution three nonjuring clergymen, Jeremy Collier, Shadrach Cook and William Snatt, appeared on the platform with the criminals; and just before the completion of the sentence Collier publicly absolved Parkyns.


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