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Meanings of encyclopedias in English

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Usage of encyclopedias in English
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Russian standard reference books and encyclopedias contain no mention of his name.
The History of a Lie: "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion"
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He might as well have been selling encyclopedias or Burl Ives records.
IT
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Founded in 2004, OSM is to maps what Wikipedia is to encyclopedias.
Wired
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There's no end of stuff stored in there, including your art encyclopedias.
The Naked God
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Strange, huh, how someone ends up walking around selling encyclopedias to Chinese?
The Elephant Vanishes
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The sceptic is too credulous; he believes in newspapers or even in encyclopedias.
Orthodoxy
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Long encyclopedias, written in Latin, collected all available information about the natural world.
Early European History
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Skeletons hung in doctors' offices where they served as visual encyclopedias.
The devil in the white city: murder, magic & madness and the fai...
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You buy the old editions of the great encyclopedias for a few cents.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett, and Ge...
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But by then, I'll probably have done my time with encyclopedias.
The Elephant Vanishes
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None of the several encyclopedias treated them collectively under either Italy or Art.
Library Work with Children
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They were walking encyclopedias when it came to night landings and jungle routes.
The bourne identity
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A row of encyclopedias crashed down upon his shoulders, narrowly missing Titania's head.
The Haunted Bookshop
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It wanted to throw all those encyclopedias out the library windows.
Another life altogether: a novel
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Johnny ate encyclopedias like any other kid might eat Red Hots or Lemonheads.
Boy’s Life
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I suggest you look up Grange in your encyclopedias, where one of them says:
A Brief History of the Internet / The Bright Side: The Dark Side
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