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| | The Penguin Encyclopedia - David Crystal - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | The entries were originally written by a team of over 350 specialist contributors affiliated to universities, museums, and other centers of excellence, and have been regularly revised in an ongoing three-year cycle to ensure a high level of up-to-dateness for the new millennium. |
 | | Inevitably, events from 2003 loom large, such as SARS and the Iraq war, as well as personalities who have achieved fresh public prominence, such as Ricky Gervais, Jonny Wilkinson, John Kerry, and Hans Blix. |
 | | Internationalism is a major focus of The Penguin Encyclopedia. |
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