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The Meta-Encyclopedia sets six public-domain reference works side by side. Where more than one of them covers a subject, their accounts appear together on a single page, so you can see what each generation of editors thought worth saying.

• Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
• Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
• An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (1920)
• The Encyclopedia of Founding (1892)
• 1000 Classical Characters (1900)
• American Watchmaker and Jeweler (1892)

6,784 subjects have a page of their own. A further 17,904 appear on shared pages, because only one encyclopedia recorded them and none at length. Nothing has been rewritten: the text is as it was printed.