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Recommendations for an Encyclopedia?

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I'm looking for something similar to Bill Byrsons 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'. His book is pretty much what I'm looking for if it were in a kind of A-Z or Reference Guide style. I had an encyclopedia when I was a child and it was in a Q & A format, is there anything like that nowadays in an adult version that…

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I'm looking for something similar to Bill Byrsons 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'.

His book is pretty much what I'm looking for if it were in a kind of A-Z or Reference Guide style.

I had an encyclopedia when I was a child and it was in a Q & A format, is there anything like that nowadays in an adult version that goes through say all the monarchs of England and the history of the Universe and capital cities and the like.

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Try "1066 and All That" by Sellar and Yeatman

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