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sound /k/ can be represented by c, k, or ck spellings) and teaching them to blend the sounds
of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of unknown words."
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42 "... brought in a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica..."
"The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general English-language encyclopaedia published by
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company. The Britannica has a popular
reputation for summarizing all of human knowledge. To further their education, many have
devoted themselves to reading the entire Britannica, taking anywhere from three to 22 years
to do so. When Fat'h Ali became the Shah of Persia in 1797, he was given a complete set of
the Britannica's 3rd edition, which he read completely; after this feat, he extended his royal
title to include "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica." Writer
George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition—except for the
science articles—and Richard Evelyn Byrd took the Britannica as reading material for his
five-month stay at the South Pole in 1934.
The articles in the Britannica are aimed at educated adult readers, and written by a staff of
19 full-time editors and over 4,000 expert contributors. It is widely perceived as the most
scholarly of encyclopaedias. Since the 3rd edition, the Britannica has enjoyed a popular and
critical reputation for general excellence. On the release of the 14th edition, Time magazine
dubbed the Britannica the "Patriarch of the Library". In a related advertisement, naturalist
William Beebe was quoted as saying that the Britannica was "beyond comparison because
there is no competitor." References to the Britannica can be found throughout English
literature, most notably in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's favorite Sherlock Holmes stories,
"The Red-Headed League"."
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43 "...her favorite books were Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ..."
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a work of literary nonsense written by
English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, considered a
classic example of the genre and of English literature in general. It tells the story of a girl
named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantastic realm populated by peculiar and
anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and
enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The
tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well
as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of
literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential,
mainly in the fantasy genre."
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44 "...Don Quixote de la Mancha..."
"An early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created
a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moorish historian,
Cide Hamete Benengeli. The work was published in two volumes: the first in 1605, and the
second in 1614.
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