The World Almanac and Book of FactsPress Publishing Company (The New York World), 1906 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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... JAPANESE WAR . Just as THE WORLD'S corps of veteran and skilled correspondents at the front kept readers just a little in advance of other people in the news of what was transpiring between the opposing land and marine armies of the ...
... JAPANESE WAR . Just as THE WORLD'S corps of veteran and skilled correspondents at the front kept readers just a little in advance of other people in the news of what was transpiring between the opposing land and marine armies of the ...
Page 137
... Japanese seized a pass on the Russian right , and Kuroki's Army , on the Japanese right , developed an elaborate flanking operation on the Russian left . Nogi , on the Japan- ese left , now marched through the neutral zone at Sinmintin ...
... Japanese seized a pass on the Russian right , and Kuroki's Army , on the Japanese right , developed an elaborate flanking operation on the Russian left . Nogi , on the Japan- ese left , now marched through the neutral zone at Sinmintin ...
Page 138
... Japanese demand for all the island of Sakhalin or Saghalien . A note was made of this and the envoys went on with the other demands . It was agreed that Japan hold all military works at Port Arthur and Dalny . The Japanese yielded minor ...
... Japanese demand for all the island of Sakhalin or Saghalien . A note was made of this and the envoys went on with the other demands . It was agreed that Japan hold all military works at Port Arthur and Dalny . The Japanese yielded minor ...
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