The World Almanac and Book of FactsNewspaper Enterprise Association, 1907 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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... present paid membership of 1,538,970 , and Treasurer Lennon , showing total funds to be $ 127,910 , were received . " 181. Knights of Labor in convention at Washington , D. C. , elected the following officers : Simon Burns of Pittsburgh ...
... present paid membership of 1,538,970 , and Treasurer Lennon , showing total funds to be $ 127,910 , were received . " 181. Knights of Labor in convention at Washington , D. C. , elected the following officers : Simon Burns of Pittsburgh ...
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... present owner- ship and management . I have quite often differed with it very broadly , both as to things advocated and its methods of advocacy . It has condemned and still deprecates some of my public and official acts which to the day ...
... present owner- ship and management . I have quite often differed with it very broadly , both as to things advocated and its methods of advocacy . It has condemned and still deprecates some of my public and official acts which to the day ...
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... present the news of big events . It was the first to tell of the fall of Port Arthur and of the entrance of General Nogi into the citadel of the Gibraltar of the East . When the happy ending was near , and Count Witte and Baron Komura ...
... present the news of big events . It was the first to tell of the fall of Port Arthur and of the entrance of General Nogi into the citadel of the Gibraltar of the East . When the happy ending was near , and Count Witte and Baron Komura ...
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... present contain so much that challenges France's special regard . ' Next day M. Cambon , French Ambassador to Washington , epitomized the reason for the natural affection of the peoples of the two republics in the epigram , " The World .
... present contain so much that challenges France's special regard . ' Next day M. Cambon , French Ambassador to Washington , epitomized the reason for the natural affection of the peoples of the two republics in the epigram , " The World .
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... present series , appearing in 1886 under Mr. Pulitzer's proprietorship , THE WORLD ALMANAC took on the encyclopedic form . It ceased to be a political manual merely , and became an expositor of all current information about the universe ...
... present series , appearing in 1886 under Mr. Pulitzer's proprietorship , THE WORLD ALMANAC took on the encyclopedic form . It ceased to be a political manual merely , and became an expositor of all current information about the universe ...
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