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Encyclopedia Britannica is 250
01-01-2019, 02:56 AM
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Thanks for sharing this Rob. I couldn't get the CBS News page link to work, but I was able to get the video to work by going to the CBS Sunday Morning YouTube page instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2g4oXAtIlU

For those of you more interested in reading, here's a near transcript provided by CBS:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/encyclopedi...rning-250/

It's fascinating looking at those elementary/middle schoolers. When I was young in elementary and middle school physical encyclopedias were the quintessential look-it-up starting resource for a school paper. But by the time I graduated high-school, that ceased to be and encyclopedias' demise in a physical form seemed inevitable.
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Encyclopedia Britannica is 250 - Rob Wick - 12-31-2018, 05:47 PM
RE: Encyclopedia Britannica is 250 - Steve - 01-01-2019 02:56 AM
RE: Encyclopedia Britannica is 250 - Steve - 01-01-2019, 09:14 PM

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