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Did everyone routinely use the encyclopedia, or read the Steinbeck novel, or listen attentively to Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony?
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
To really do justice to the cuisines of this region would take an encyclopedia, but this volume is a fine introduction, filled with recipes that fill the soul and the stomach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
As a child, he came across a page in an encyclopedia featuring Neil Armstrong and the picture of an astronaut on the Moon from the 1969 Apollo mission.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
“I found the encyclopedia at the Underground,” he explains, of the DuBois work that became central to “Blknws.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
I rattled off some more: “Pull out a hair....Sit the three thickest volumes of the encyclopedia on your tongue....Sleep all night with erasers up your nose....Wrap your mouth around the doorknob and slam it shut....”
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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