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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
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
For nearly half-a-century, until he retired last month, Howard Silverblatt was the walking, talking encyclopedia of the S&P 500.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Aureliano remembered having seen a similar table in the English encyclopedia, so he brought it to the room to compare it with that of José Arcadio Segundo.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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