The Encyclopædia Britannica Online defines terrorism generally as " the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective ", and states that " terrorism is not legally defined in all jurisdictions.

Again according to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, " Of his three great works — Solomon, Entry into Jerusalem and Lazarus — the second is generally regarded as the finest.

Social guidance films were generally produced by corporations such as Coronet Films, Centron Corporation, and even Encyclopædia Britannica, but the films were also produced by maverick independent filmmakers such as Sid Davis, dubbed by author Ken Smith as the " King of Calamity " for his often calamitous narratives.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica the first use of the word " Radical " in a political sense is generally ascribed to the English whig parliamentarian Charles James Fox.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

There was a general reduction in the number of cavalry regiments in the British, French, Italian and other Western armies but it was still argued with conviction ( for example in the 1922 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ) that mounted troops had a major role to play in future warfare.

The Encyclopædia Britannica ( Latin for " British Encyclopaedia "), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

Although publication has been based in the United States since 1901, the Britannica has largely maintained British spelling.

The Britannica was dedicated to the reigning British monarch from 1788 to 1901 and then, upon its sale to an American partnership, to the British monarch and the President of the United States.

A British Children's Britannica edited by John Armitage was issued in London in 1960.

* Actinologia Britannica: a history of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals.

Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.

As a direct result of the Napoleonic wars, the British Empire became the foremost world power for the next century, thus beginning Pax Britannica.

The term derives from and is inspired by the Pax Romana of the Roman Empire, the Pax Britannica of the British Empire and the Pax Mongolica of the Mongol Empire.

The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica states that " he spelling ' tyre ' is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in the US ", while Fowler's Modern English Usage of 1926 says that " there is nothing to be said for ' tyre ', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own British older & the present American usage ".

Her British and continental counterpart Brigantia seems to have been the Celtic equivalent of the Roman Minerva and the Greek Athena ( Encyclopædia Britannica: Celtic Religion ), goddesses with very similar functions and apparently embodying the same concept of ' elevated state ', whether physical or psychological.

* " St Kilda-Death of an Island Republic " Utopia Britannica: British Utopian Experiments 1325-1945.

Pax Britannica ( Latin for " the British Peace ", modelled after Pax Romana ) was the period of relative peace in Europe and the world ( 1815 – 1914 ) during which the British Empire controlled most of the key maritime trade routes and enjoyed unchallenged sea power.

See the Lives in the Dictionary of National Biography and in Biographia Britannica ( Kippis ), with authorities there collected ; Essex's Irish correspondence is in the Stow Collection in the British Library, Nos.

He also wrote numerous essays for the Westminster, North British, and other reviews ; articles in the " Encyclopædia Britannica " and several pamphlets on education questions.

The Family of Hoge quotes The Encyclopædia Britannica as having this to say about the Howes: " The friendliness of the brothers, Admiral Richard Howe and General William Howe, to the colonies led to their selection for the command of the British forces in the Revolutionary War.

In the words of the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, the dictionary had " elucidated the private annals of the British ", providing not only concise lives of the notable deceased, but additionally lists of sources which were invaluable to researchers in a period when few libraries or collections of manuscripts had published catalogues or indices, and the production of indices to periodical literatures was just beginning.

He returned to England with his reputation, according to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, " as a statesman enhanced by the respect of all parties, and with a practical experience, second only to that of Lord Milner, of British imperialism in successful operation.

The Family of Hoge quotes The Encyclopaedia Britannica as having this to say about the Howes: " The friendliness of the brothers, Admiral Richard Howe and General William Howe, to the colonies led to their selection for the command of the British forces in the Revolutionary War.

* Encyclopædia Britannica (" British Empire " and " Viceroy "), London: Cambridge University Press, 1911, 11th edition,

* Alternate spelling from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article.

The size of the Britannica has remained roughly constant over 70 years, with about 40 million words on half a million topics.

According to one Britannica website, 46 % of its articles were revised over the past three years ; however, according to another Britannica web-site, only 35 % of the articles were revised.

The Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite 2006 DVD contains over 55 million words and just over 100, 000 articles.

Although the Britannica is now available both in multimedia form and over the Internet, its preeminence is being challenged by other online encyclopaedias, such as Wikipedia.

There are different interpretations of the significance of the Eucharist, but according to the Encyclopædia Britannica " there is more of a consensus among Christians about the meaning of the Eucharist than would appear from the confessional debates over the sacramental presence, the effects of the Eucharist, and the proper auspices under which it may be celebrated.

Questions as to whether Terence received assistance in writing or was not the actual author have been debated over the ages, as described in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

His works, which the Biographia Britannica ( 1778 ) testifies were known over Europe, were collected at Amsterdam in five volumes.

" The Cappella Palatina, at Palermo, the most wonderful of Roger's churches, with Norman architecture | Norman doors, Islamic architecture | Saracenic arches, Byzantine architecture | Byzantine dome, and roof adorned with Arabic alphabet | Arabic scripts, is perhaps the most striking product of the brilliant and mixed civilization over which the grandson of the Norman Trancred ruled " ( from EB1911 | 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ).

There has been some debate over the details of his life, which the following quote from the entry " Bible, English " in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica illustrates:

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " The name first appears in early Islāmic history in the dispute over ʿAlī ’ s leadership of the Muslim community after the murder of the third caliph, Hazrat ʿUthmān ' Affan ( 656 ).

Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1911 ) puzzles over the reason for Gessner's universal popularity, and speculates that maybe it was the taste of the period for the conventional pastoral.

The Monumenta Britannica was Aubrey's principal collection of archaeological material, written over some thirty years between about 1663 and 1693.

Jacques Pierre Brissot (" Brissot de Warville "), a restless pamphleteer and editor of the newspaper Patriote, was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as " inferior to these men in talent ", but exerted such great influence over the party that it has sometimes gone by his name (" Brissotins ").

Although Britannica stated in 1911 that The whole business seems to have been purely a piece of vindictiveness on the part of Biron., since the erection of the monument, there was controversy over their plans since Volynsky's work General Project of Internal Affairs of the State state that they were conspirators in a plan to overturn the Empress.

He was editor in chief of Encyclopædia Britannica from January 1968 until resigning in April 1969 in an editorial dispute over how to adapt the work to new readers.

The pyramid and plaque as well as the identification of Bear Mountain as Connecticut's highest peak and misidentification as Connecticut's highest point are the work of Robbins Battell of Norfolk, Connecticut, who became convinced that the Encyclopædia Britannica was wrong in stating that there was no point in Connecticut over above sea level, and had the Litchfield Hills surveyed.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica noted that, in Kalgan, " the ordinary houses have an unusual appearance, from the fact that they are mostly roofed with earth and become covered with green-sward " and that " on the way to Peking the road passes over a beautiful bridge of seven arches, ornamented with marble figures of animals ".

According to the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, the town is known for a 1420 victory by Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg over the Pomeranians.

In the words of the 2004 Encyclopædia Britannica, his History " wove a vast body of data into a unified and orderly whole that provided an exceptionally powerful and vivid picture of Russia's political development over the centuries.

In August 2005, PublishAmerica was sued by Encyclopædia Britannica for trademark violation over PublishAmerica's PublishBritannica imprint.

Felis Britannica is itself a federation of cat clubs all over the UK which organise shows licenced by FB.

By this system, the day-to-day government and administration of areas both small and large was left in the hands of traditional rulers, who gained prestige and the stability and protection afforded by the Pax Britannica, at the cost of losing control of their external affairs, and often of taxation, communications, and other matters, usually with a small number of European " advisors " effectively overseeing the government of large numbers of people spread over extensive areas.