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| Dear Librarian/Principal, |
Welcome to our first edition of Britannica Buzz! Britannica would like to wish you all the best for the coming year. This newsletter has been designed to be interesting and most of all fun. Please feel free to forward it to your collegues the more the merrier! Enjoy! |
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| Article One: Toys Through Time |
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In the season for gift-giving, one of the most common gifts of all is the toy. The ball, the doll, the kite, and the yo-yo are thought to be the oldest playthings, and human and animal figures - sometimes mounted on wheels and dating as far back as 2,600 BCE - have been found in ancient Egypt, India, China, and Mesopotamia.....
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| Article Two: The Know-It-All One Man 32 Volumes |
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Even with an Ivy League education and a list of enviable professional accomplishments, A.J. Jacobs, a senior editor at Esquire magazine, felt he wasn't as smart as he should be. Jacobs devised a plan to become the smartest person in the world by learning without going back to school. His plan? To read the Encyclopædia Britannica from cover to cover, all 32 volumes, 33,000 pages, 44 million words, and 65,000 articles. While Jacobs doubts he's the smartest living human, he did earn bragging rights.......
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| Article Three: What's New with Britannica |
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Britannica Online has introduced a new feature called Animal Kingdom in its School PreK-8, School PreK-12 and Library Sites. Explore animals by group or habitat, watch animal related videos, peruse animals from A to Z and click click related links and learning materials. |
| Plus 40 Language Options for Translation on Britannica Online....Read more >> |
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| Teacher’s Pet: Kreby the Krebensis |
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If you would like to show off you adorable pet then email us a picture* with a brief profile. As this is the first newsletter I thought I better start the ball rolling. I live in a flat and work full time so we decided to have have pet fish. So please meet Kreby the Krebensis! This breed of fish orginally came from the Niger River basin in Nigeria. Kreby has fathered .....
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| The Buzz Quote of the Month: 'That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.' (Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City) |
Thanks for reading see you next time!
Sent by Kim Walling
on behalf of the Britannica Team |
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