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 ...
"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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