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- Other Category Schemes
- About The Encyclopedia category schemes - Complete list of encyclopedia topics - Library of Congress catalog scheme - Dewey Decimal System - The Encyclopedia arranged by topic - Historical timeline - Historical anniversaries - Reference tables - Biographical Listing - Current events
- The Encyclopedias in other languages
- About the non-English The Encyclopedias - Afrikaans - Arabic (Araby) - Basque (Euskara) - Catalan (Català) - Chinese (Hanyu) - Danish (Dansk) - Dutch (Nederlands) - Esperanto - French (Français) - German (Deutsch) - Hebrew (Ivrit) - Hungarian (Magyar) - Italian (Italiano) - Japanese (Nihongo) - Norwegian (Norsk) - Polish (Polska) - Portuguese (Português) - Russian (Russkiy) - Serbocroatian (Croatoserbian) - Spanish (Castellano) - Swedish (Svensk)
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- Useful resources for us: The Encyclopedia utilities - Tarballs of The Encyclopedia data - Public domain resources - Commentary, which is being transferred to meta.bigissuepedia.com - SandBox
- Selected press coverage: The New York Times -- December 9, 2001 - The New York Times -- September 20, 2001 - MIT's Technology Review
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