Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Malta" to "Map, Walter" by Various

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Hey, have you ever wondered what the world looked like through the eyes of 1910? I just spent a week with a chunk of the old Encyclopaedia Britannica, and it's wild. It's not a story about Malta or a guy named Walter Map—it's a time capsule. This book captures the moment right before everything changed: before World War I, before cars were everywhere, when empires were still the main characters. Reading it feels like eavesdropping on the smartest people in the room from over a century ago. The confidence, the blind spots, the sheer amount they thought they knew—it's absolutely fascinating. If you like history, but want to feel it instead of just read about it, this is your ticket.
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(2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript. (3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective paragraphs. (4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not inserted. (5) [root] stands for the root symbol; [alpha], [beta], etc. for greek letters. (6) The following typographical errors have been corrected: ARTICLE MALTA: "Queen Adelaide visited Malta in 1838 and founded the Anglican collegiate church of St Paul. Sir F. Hankey as chief secretary was for many years the principal official of the civil administration." 'visited' amended from 'vistied'. ARTICLE MALTA: "... whose decision affirmed the advisability of legislation and the need for validating retrospectively marriages not supported by either Maltese or English common law. " 'advisability' amended from 'advisibility'. ARTICLE MAMMOTH CAVE: "... although the diameter of the area of the whole cavern is less than 10 m., the combined length of all accessible avenues is supposed to be about 150 m." 'combined' amended from 'conbined'. ARTICLE MANCHE: "South of Granville the sands of St Pair are the commencement of the great bay of Mont Saint Michel, 543 whose area of 60,000 acres was covered with forest till the terrible tide of the year 709." 'sands' amended from 'samds'. ARTICLE MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE: "The Poems of James Clarence Mangan (1903), and the Prose Writings (1904), were both edited by D. J. O'Donoghue, who wrote in 1897 a complete account of the Life and Writings of the poet." 'Mangan' amended from 'Magan'. ARTICLE MANILA: "In 1906 the total value of the exports was $23,902,986 and the total value of the imports was $21,868,257." Duplicate 'the' removed. ARTICLE MANN, HORACE: "Meanwhile he served, with conspicuous ability, in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833 and in the Massachusetts Senate from 1833 to 1837, for the last two years as president." 'ability' amended from 'ailbity'. ARTICLE MANTEGNA, ANDREA: "It was painted in tempera about 1495, in commemoration of the battle of Fornovo, which Gianfrancesco Gonzaga found it convenient to represent to his lieges as an Italian victory ..." 'Gianfrancesco' amended from 'Ginfrancesco'. ARTICLE MANURES and MANURING: "Clay land, as a rule, is not benefited by their use, these soils containing generally an abundance of potash." 'soils' amended from 'oils'. ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT: "... where also is described the mechanical computation of the length of a text by measured lines, for the purpose of calculating the pay of the scribe." 'of' amended from 'or'. ARTICLE MAORI: "The Rarotongas call themselves Maori, and state that their ancestors came from Hawaiki, and Parima and Manono are the native names of two islands in the Samoan group." 'Parima' amended from 'Pirima'. ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INFORMATION ELEVENTH EDITION VOLUME XVII, SLICE V Malta to Map, Walter ARTICLES IN THIS SLICE: MALTA MANG LÖN MALTA FEVER MANGNALL, RICHMAL MALTE-BRUN, CONRAD MANGO MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT MANGOSTEEN MALTON MANGROVE MALTZAN, HEINRICH VON MANICHAEISM MALUS, ÉTIENNE LOUIS MANIFEST MALVACEAE MANIHIKI MALVASIA MANIKIALA MALVERN MANILA MALWA MANILA HEMP MAMARONECK MANILIUS MAMELI, GOFFREDO MANILIUS, GAIUS MAMELUKE MANIN, DANIELE MAMERTINI MANING, FREDERICK EDWARD MAMERTINUS, CLAUDIUS MANIPLE MAMIANI DELLA ROVERE, TERENZIO MANIPUR MAMMALIA MANISA MAMMARY GLAND MANISTEE MAMMEE APPLE MANITOBA (lake of Canada) MAMMON MANITOBA (province of Canada) MAMMOTH MANITOU MAMMOTH CAVE MANITOWOC MAMORÉ MANIZALES MAMUN MANKATO MAMUND MANLEY, MARY DE LA RIVIERE MAN MANLIUS MAN, ISLE OF MANN, HORACE MANAAR, GULF OF MANNA MANACOR MANNERS, CHARLES MANAGE MANNERS-SUTTON, CHARLES MANAGUA MANNHEIM MANAKIN MANNING, HENRY EDWARD MANAOAG MANNY, SIR WALTER DE MANNY MANÁOS MANNYNG, ROBERT MANASSAS MANOEUVRES, MILITARY MANASSEH (son of Hezekiah) MANOMETER MANASSEH (tribe of Israel) MANOR MANASSES, CONSTANTINE MANOR-HOUSE MANASSES,...

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This isn't a novel with a plot. Think of it as a snapshot of human knowledge frozen in 1910-1911. The volume covering 'Malta' to 'Map, Walter' is a random slice of that snapshot. You'll get a detailed entry on the island fortress of Malta, its history and strategic importance to the British Empire. You'll then journey through entries on mammals, Manchuria, and the art of manuscript illumination before landing on a biography of Walter Map, a 12th-century writer. The 'story' is the journey itself—watching how the editors connected the dots of the world as they understood it.

Why You Should Read It

The magic isn't in the facts (many are outdated), but in the voice and perspective. The writing is confident, often elegant, and completely of its time. You see what they valued (military history, classical references, imperial geography) and what they overlooked. Reading the entry on 'Manners' or 'Map' gives you a direct line to the social and intellectual attitudes of the Edwardian era. It's history written as current events.

Final Verdict

Perfect for history buffs who want to go beyond dates and battles to grasp the mindset of an era. It's also great for curious readers who enjoy diving into weird, primary-source anthologies. This isn't for someone seeking a straightforward narrative, but for anyone who thinks the best way to understand a period is to read its own textbooks. Keep your phone handy to fact-check—the contrast between what they knew then and what we know now is the whole point.



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