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7 unusual facts about New International Encyclopedia


Ernst Raupach

The 1905 New International Encyclopedia thought his writings display great knowledge of stage effect, a talent for the invention of new and interesting situations, and a fine play of verbal wit.

Frank Weitenkampf

Weitenkampf prepared many pamphlets cataloging and describing prints and contributed to various encyclopedias, among them the New International Encyclopedia, and to the Standard Dictionary.

New International Encyclopedia

The International Cyclopaedia was much improved by editors Harry Thurston Peck and Selim Peabody.

The title was changed to New International Encyclopedia in 1902, with editors Harry Thurston Peck, Daniel Coit Gilman, and Frank Moore Colby.

An early description of Adolf Hitler and his activities from 1920 to 1924 is in the supplement to the 1926 edition.

Persifor Frazer Smith

New International Encyclopedia, Vol XVIII, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Ulrich von Hutten

In 1508, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica reports him a shipwrecked beggar on the Pomeranian coast, while the New International Encyclopedia describes him as stricken down with the pestilence and recovering.



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