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6 unusual facts about Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition


Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

It has been used as a source by many modern projects, including Wikipedia and the Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia.

Friedrich Kasiski

The later years of his life were spent at Neustettin (Szczecinek); the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica cited a scholarly article by Kasiski in its entry on the town.

Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica he for a while "almost ... constituted the Whig party in the upper house."

Negotiable instrument

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition has a comprehensive article on the Bill of Exchange, detailing its history and operation, as understood at the time of its publication.

Richard Lydekker

Lydekker was a contributor to Encyclopædia Britannica.

Sirohi State

In 1911 the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition recorded that a large portion of the state was covered with dense jungle, in which wild animals, including the tiger, bear and leopard, abounded; and that the climate was on the whole dry (in the south and east there was usually a fair amount of rain.


René le Brun, Comte de L'Hôpital

His best known works are the illustrations he did for the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911) and his portraits of Pope Leo XIII, Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty and Prince Arthur of Connaught.


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