The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and sold by the Gale Group. First published in 1935[1], the current edition is the sixth, printed in 2000. It contains over 51,000 articles totaling some 6.5 million words and has also been published in two volumes. Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, 1902 An encyclopedia, encyclopaedia or (traditionally) encyclopædia,[1] is a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
An electronic version of the encyclopedia is available and is licensed by several different companies for use over the World Wide Web. This edition, which is marked up in SGML, is updated on a quarterly basis and contains over 84,000 hyperlinked cross-references. Unlike many other major English-language encyclopedias, the complete content of the Columbia encyclopedia is available online to individual users without payment. (Most others make a subset of their content available, and the user is from time to time informed that more content is only available to subscribers.) WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents that runs over the Internet. ... A specialized markup language using SGML is used to write the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary. ... The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. ...
A particular strength of the Columbia encyclopedia in comparison to other similar reference works might be its concise but often well-written biographies, particularly of artists and writers, usually accompanied by carefully selected bibliographies. A bibliography is an overview of (almost) all publications in some category: works of some author publications about some specific subject publications published in some specific country publications published in some specific period publications mentioned in, or relevant to, a particular work (a bibliography of this type, sometimes called a...
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The Columbia adds that "it was not, as is sometimes asserted, universally accepted in the Middle Ages." The undisputed fact is that from the date of Charlemagne's award (774) to within a few years of the end of the Middle Ages (as fixed by this encyclopedia) it was universally accepted.
Oar ColumbiaEncyclopedia gives him three times as much space as it gives to the Emperor Hadrian, and, beyond casually mentioning his mistresses, conveys the impression that he really was a great monarch and had "an infinite capacity for work." Professors Boak, Slosson, and Anderson allot him a "glorious reign" with a few shades.
But what one chiefly deplores here is that the whole of our historians and the ColumbiaEncyclopedia fail or decline to inform their readers of the Profound social importance of the work of the philosophers and the high distinction of most members of the group.
Columbia also owns the 26 acre Baker Field, which has the facilities for field sports, outdoor track, tennis, and rowing at the northern tip of Manhattan island (in the neighborhood of Inwood).
Columbia Law School was founded in 1858, and the country's first mining school, a precursor of today's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, was established in 1864.
Columbia's fencing team in the late 20th century was one of the nation's most successful, with NCAA team championships in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992 and 1993.
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