bjkeefe: You've Come At Least A Little Ways, Baby

Friday, July 28, 2006

You've Come At Least A Little Ways, Baby

From the original Encyclopedia Britannica, of 1768-71:

WOMAN -- The female of man. See HOMO.

Yup, that's the complete entry.

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2 comments:

bjkeefe said...: Also from the same article:

"[T]he entire House of Representatives has been banned from [editing] Wikipedia several times"; 9:05 PM, July 28, 2006
bjkeefe said...: And:

"[T]he entry in the Encyclopédie [French, 1751-80] on cannibalism ends with the cross-reference 'See Eucharist.' ... [which] briefly earned the book's publisher a place in the Bastille."; 9:15 PM, July 28, 2006

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