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The Wonder Book of Knowledge
Sorry, but I don't know too much about this, because the title page is missing. Based on its contents, I estimate it be from the 1920's or 30s. If anyone knows the specific, I'd like to hear about it.
As is obvious from the picture, its been well enjoyed over the decades, a lot.
Behold...the Sacred Books of Knowledge!
This used to be a single book. "Revised and Expanded" doesn't begin to describe how much more of an improvement this is. ALL the photos are in COLOR.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oregon Coast
The Oregon Coast is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon. It runs generally north-south along the Pacific Ocean, forming the western border of the state; the region is bounded to the east by the Oregon Coast Range. The Oregon Coast stretches approximately 363 miles (584 km) from the Columbia River in the north to the Oregon–California state border in the south. The Oregon Coast is not a specific geological, environmental, or political entity but, instead, includes the entire coastline of Oregon, including the Columbia River Estuary.
1967's Oregon Beach Bill allows free beach access to everyone. This bill allows private beach landowners to retain certain beach land rights, but it removes the property tax obligation of the beach landowner. In exchange, the beach landowner grants an easement passage to pedestrians. The Beach Bill grants a public access easement on the beach that cannot be taken away by the landowner nor can the landowner build on the beach.[1]
Traditionally, the Oregon Coast is regarded as three distinct sub-regions,[2] each with its own local features and regional history. While there are no legal or objective boundaries, most Oregonians consider the three regions to be:
The North Coast, which stretches from the Columbia River to Neskowin.[3]
The Central Coast, which stretches from Lincoln City to Florence.[4]
The South Coast, which stretches from Reedsport to the Oregon–California border.[5]
The largest city along the Oregon Coast is Coos Bay—population 16,000[6]—in Coos County on the South Coast. U.S. Route 101 is the primary highway from Astoria to Brookings, and is known for its scenic overlooks of the Pacific Ocean. There are over 80 state parks and recreation areas along the Oregon Coast. However, there are only a few highways that cross the coast mountains from the interior to the coast. This has led to highways US-20, US-30, US-26, SR-18 and SR-22, all serving the Willamette Valley / Portland area to the North and Central Coasts as being considered some of the worst in terms of traffic,[7] a conclusion disputed by the Oregon Department of Transportation. Highways SR-18 and US-20 are considered two of the most dangerous roads in the state.[8]
The Oregon Coast includes Clatsop County, Tillamook County, Lincoln County, western Lane County, western Douglas County, Coos County, and Curry County.
for more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Coast
Sarah Sze.
2010. Mixed media, metal shelves, wood shelves, lights, plastic bottles, milk cartons. 179 x 547 x 489 inches
454.7 x 1389.4 x 1242.1 cm
From Sze's "Uncountables" show, described as, "...a paradise for clutter queens, a gravity-defying monument to those of us compelled to find a use for all the disposables that we accumulate in the course of a day and can never bring ourselves to throw away."
tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/artifacts-sarah-sz...
World Book Encyclopedia
1993
22 volumes
An American encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Encyclopedia Virginia works with a group of teachers in 2012. Photo by Peter Hedlund, Virginia Humanities
World Book Encyclopedia
1993
22 volumes
An American encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Illustration from Golden Book Encyclopedia & Golden Treasurey of Knowlege
Illustration from Golden Book Encyclopedia & Golden Treasurey of Knowlege
Illustration from Golden Book Encyclopedia & Golden Treasurey of Knowlege
Illustration from Golden Book Encyclopedia & Golden Treasurey of Knowlege
World Book Encyclopedia
1993
22 volumes
An American encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Illustration from Golden Book Encyclopedia & Golden Treasurey of Knowlege
Illustration from Golden Book Encyclopedia & Golden Treasurey of Knowlege
World Book Encyclopedia
1993
22 volumes
An American encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
edited by James H.Marsh.
Edmonton, Hurtig Publishers Limited, 199o.
an entry on Nichol that focusses on his children's writing (& not very well, at that).
Encyclopedia
2005
Charles Sandison
Born 1969, Northumberland, England; moved in childhood to Wick, Caithness, Scotland; in 1996 to Finland; lives and works in Tampere, Finland
Computer-generated data projection
Swarms of words
By Luke Hortle
As you enter the Void or walk across the bridge above Mona’s underground bar, look up: there on the slanting gallery ceiling is Encyclopedia by UK artist Charles Sandison. The artist (now based in Tampere, Finland) makes these great big computer-generated data installations that project swarms of words onto the surfaces of gallery spaces. In this work, the words behave like birds.
The starting point for the work began from observing birds that flocked and landed on telephone wires strung between poles outside the studio. There was not enough space for all the birds to land at the same time and they were forced to compete for a landing space. As new birds arrived and found a gap it forced other birds to move along the wire to make space. Eventually birds at the end of the line were forced to fly away and circle until a new space became available.
—Chales Sandison
The swarming words you see come from the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1910–11. It contains an impressive 44 million words across 29 volumes, written by 1507 contributors (including 34 women). It represents the last major attempt to compile the knowledge of the world (from a privileged, white, western perspective, at least), on the brink of the unprecedented slaughter of the First World War.
All 44 million words of the 11th edition have been fed into a computer program and given the behavioural characteristics of birds. Like the birds squabbling for a place to land that Sandison describes, the words compete for space on a single page, which forms the projection you see on the gallery ceiling. The words ‘remember’ their original position within the encyclopedia and appear accordingly: they flock with the words that appear on their left and right in a sentence, on the lines above and below, and on the same page. For example, when the artwork displays text about Leonardo da Vinci, you might spy words relating to the Mona Lisa flitting across the ceiling.
It will take roughly thirty years for all 44 million words to appear.