The World Almanac and Book of FactsNewspaper Enterprise Association, 1919 The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a US published reference work and conveys information about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc. It has been published yearly from 1868 to 1875, and again every year since 1886. The first edition of The World Almanac was published by The New York World newspaper in 1868 (the name of the publication comes from the newspaper itself, which was known as The World). Published just three years after the end of the US Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased The New York World and quickly transformed it into one of the most influential newspapers in the country, revived The World Almanac with the intention of making it a compendium of universal knowledge. The World Almanac has been published annually since. |
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... France . Italy . Holland . Denmark , Belgium . Philippine Islands . Malay Penin- sula , Argentine . Chili . Peru , S. A .. Africa , Australia . Cuba , New Zealand . Porto Rico . Mexico and Hawaii . It is THE Artificial Arm that you do ...
... France . Italy . Holland . Denmark , Belgium . Philippine Islands . Malay Penin- sula , Argentine . Chili . Peru , S. A .. Africa , Australia . Cuba , New Zealand . Porto Rico . Mexico and Hawaii . It is THE Artificial Arm that you do ...
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... France on the 3d , and overran Belgium and Northern France August 4 to 26. Giving breach of Belgian neutrality as the ground , Great Britain declared war on Germany August 4 ; on the 16th landed an expeditionary force in France . In ...
... France on the 3d , and overran Belgium and Northern France August 4 to 26. Giving breach of Belgian neutrality as the ground , Great Britain declared war on Germany August 4 ; on the 16th landed an expeditionary force in France . In ...
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... France , made public December 13 , says : The earnest belief of every member of the Expeditionary Forces in the justice of our cause was productive of a form of self - imposed discipline among our soldiers which must be regarded as an ...
... France , made public December 13 , says : The earnest belief of every member of the Expeditionary Forces in the justice of our cause was productive of a form of self - imposed discipline among our soldiers which must be regarded as an ...
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... FRANCE . 6 . RUSSIA . 7. ITALY . STATES . No. Battleships . 52 Battle cruisers . 9 Cruisers 231 Light cruisers 73 ... France , 30 . 21 112,869 ( 14 - inch ) Great Large guns : ( 12 - inch ) Great Britain , 196 ; France , 88 ; Japan , 52 ...
... FRANCE . 6 . RUSSIA . 7. ITALY . STATES . No. Battleships . 52 Battle cruisers . 9 Cruisers 231 Light cruisers 73 ... France , 30 . 21 112,869 ( 14 - inch ) Great Large guns : ( 12 - inch ) Great Britain , 196 ; France , 88 ; Japan , 52 ...
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... France The Red Lily 5. De Maupassant Mademoiselle Fifi , and 12 6. Nietzsche Other Stories Thus Spake Zarathustra 7. Dostoyevsky 8. Maeterlinck A Miracle of St. Anthony , and 5 Other Plays Studies in Pessimism 9. Schopenhauer 10. Samuel ...
... France The Red Lily 5. De Maupassant Mademoiselle Fifi , and 12 6. Nietzsche Other Stories Thus Spake Zarathustra 7. Dostoyevsky 8. Maeterlinck A Miracle of St. Anthony , and 5 Other Plays Studies in Pessimism 9. Schopenhauer 10. Samuel ...
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