The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 59, December 23

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.7
Word count
37K words
Chapters
4

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Other CultureEnglish Originals Historical ReappraisalEarly JournalismSocial ObservationCivic AwarenessDaily ReflectionsIllustrated GuideMagazine SelectionPopular NarrativeWorld OrderGlobal Perspective

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 59, December 23,Author: Various,Language: English, Class: D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere, Release Date: Aug 9, 2005

Editor's review

This is Vol. 1, No. 59 of The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, dated December 23, a periodical compiling current events and news from around the world for its readers. Its value lies in preserving international news, social observations, and informative curiosities from a specific moment in time, offering readable primary material for studying how the public then understood the world and how the media organized information. Composed of short pieces, it suits fragmented reading; but as a current-events compilation from a century ago, much of its information is outdated and its views carry period limitations. Readers should not treat it as a reliable historical reference but rather as a sample for studying news history, reading history, or old periodicals. Those interested in Project Gutenberg public-domain texts and old publications can sense the tone and layout of early popular knowledge writing.

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  1. Browse it as a sample old periodical, noting column layout, tone, and topic selection rather than seeking current information.
  2. Read two or three short pieces at a time, considering the knowledge background of readers at the publication date.
  3. Compare with other periodicals or news sources of the same period to observe differences in topic selection and narration.
  4. Record outdated statements and period biases as material for news-history analysis.

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FAQ

Does this periodical still have reference value today? As current-events information it is mostly outdated, but it retains value as material for news history, reading history, and old-periodical studies, showing how the public then understood the world.
Is it an annual bound volume for a given year? No. It is Vol. 1, No. 59, dated December 23, a single-issue compilation, not an annual bound volume or complete series.
Is it suitable for English learners to practice reading? Yes, but note the text is a century old and some expressions and topics bear period traces; use it to understand old-style news language rather than to learn contemporary English expression.

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Various Author

Various is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.