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My grandparents got a Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia one volume at a time from a supermarket marketing thing in the 1950s. Amusingly, many of the articles in Enc
by jacobolus 7y ago
My grandparents got a Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia one volume at a time from a supermarket marketing thing in the 1950s.
Amusingly, many of the articles in Encarta were copied verbatim from there.
- voltagex_ 7y agoLast part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_%26_Wagnalls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_%26_Wagnalls >"After failing to purchase rights to the text of the Encyclopædia Britannica and World Book Encyclopedia for its Encarta digital encyclopedia, Microsoft reluctantly used (under license) the text of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia for the first editions of its encyclopedia. This licensed text was gradually replaced over the following years with content Microsoft created itself.[7]"