The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volumes 1-10Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1974 - Reference [1] Propaedia: outline of knowledge and guide to the Britannica.--[2]-[11] Micropaedia: ready reference and index.--[12]-[30] Macropaedia: knowledge in depth. |
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... family was the merycoidodonts ( or oreodonts ) , which lasted until the early Pliocene ( about 6,000,000 years ago ) . They had somewhat piglike proportions , short faces , a large upper canine and a caniniform first lower premolar ...
... family was the merycoidodonts ( or oreodonts ) , which lasted until the early Pliocene ( about 6,000,000 years ago ) . They had somewhat piglike proportions , short faces , a large upper canine and a caniniform first lower premolar ...
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... Family Melamphaeidae ( big - scale fishes ) Abundant deepwater open ocean fishes , worldwide ; soft- bodied and black . Fossils in the Miocene . Family Gibberichthyidae As Melamphaeidae but with stronger fin spines . Atlantic , 1 or 2 ...
... Family Melamphaeidae ( big - scale fishes ) Abundant deepwater open ocean fishes , worldwide ; soft- bodied and black . Fossils in the Miocene . Family Gibberichthyidae As Melamphaeidae but with stronger fin spines . Atlantic , 1 or 2 ...
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... Family and upbringing . Jane Austen was born on December 16 , 1775 , in the Hampshire village of Steven- ton , where her father , the Rev. George Austen , was rec- tor . She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight ...
... Family and upbringing . Jane Austen was born on December 16 , 1775 , in the Hampshire village of Steven- ton , where her father , the Rev. George Austen , was rec- tor . She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight ...
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