| Webster's World Encyclopedia1997 contains a full copy of The Cambridge Encyclopedia from Cambridge University Press, which contains over 26,000 entries.
The Dr R Brasch 'Origins' series of books are also included. This series covers the origin of a huge range of phrases, sports, words, superstitions, customs, and more. This section is extensively cross-linked to the main encyclopedia.
Detailed country information, including detailed maps and flags are available for almost all countries in the world. You can check political, economic, geographical, population, climate, area, industries, religion, natural resources information and more. This section is extensively linked to the main encyclopedia.
Everybody is interested in space! Here we include a huge photo library of space, the planets, and other interesting heavenly bodies, as well as a major rundown and history of all man's attempts, triumphs and failures in space.
Here's an area where this product really excels. A range of timelines cover such topics as the history of the world, as well as more specific timelines covering such things as the history of certain revolutions, manufacturing and more. Most entries are linked directly to the encyclopedia. Feel free to modify the provided timelines, or even create your own!
| Every month throughout 1997, a series of updates, new articles and essays are available via the Internet. After downloading the updates, either manually through our web site, or automatically from the CD-ROM, the updates are integrated seamlessly into the CD-ROM as it operates. There is no better way to keep any CD-ROM as up-to-date as this one.
Our ready reference section contains over 400 tables, containing a variety of information - including such things as the tallest mountains, longest rivers, sports results, leaders and past leaders of a wide range of countries. Again, this section is extensively linked to other sections in the encyclopedia.
Learn all about the United Nations - its history, its charter, and how it deals with, and plans to deal with, environmental problems now and into the future.
The major events of the twentieth century are contained in their own section. We look in more detail at the events that shaped our world. Again, this section is linked in many ways to other areas of the encyclopedia.
A day-by-day run down of the major news stories of the previous year.
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