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History Britannica was first launched online in 1994 as eb.com, which required a paid subscription to access. In 1999 the free website Britannica.com was launched, which contained the full text …

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Oct 22, 2025 · The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, and its first digital version debuted in 1981. In 1994 Britannica released the first …

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for 'British Encyclopaedia') is a general-knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published since 1768, and after several ownership …

4 days ago · Does history really repeat itself, or can we learn from the mistakes of those who came before us? History provides a chronological, statistical, and cultural record of the events, …

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