NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...
Modern dictionaries have a longer masthead than the average magazine; my copy of Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 25 editors. But the first—and still, by some measures, the ...
When Samuel Johnson compiled the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language in 1755, it stood 18 inches tall. A Dictionary of the English Language took nine years to complete and held its ...
"Here is a complete, authoritative, encyclopedic guide to musical instruments from the world over, telling when, how, and by whom they have been used. Covering the period from pre-history to the ...
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