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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

The decision arrives not a moment too soon for the online encyclopedia, which has seen a deluge of hallucination-prone A.I.-written articles since ChatGPT’s launch.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 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

He left behind a seminal 37-volume encyclopedia, the “Natural History,” and the surviving letters of his nephew paint a colorful portrait of a workaholic who rarely slept.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: “The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults do not fly.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides