A black, but glittering thread of irony surfaces at times - the Serbian proverb states that 'Where residents are modest, the house is big enough'.īesides sounds and - by computer standards - excellent photographs and illustrations, there are also animations.
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Culture hounds can listen to e e cummings and Dylan Thomas recite their own work.Įach major language - and sadly this excepts all the Celtic variants - has, as well as a textual entry, a screen full of buttons that play sample words, phrases and a national proverb in the chosen tongue. Music lovers have a huge choice, including snatches of Monteverdi, Egyptian 'Ud playing, and Little Richard.Īnimal enthusiasts can hear the song of the killer whale, or the cry of a grey wolf bird fanciers the nightingale or the strange gulping boom of the bittern.
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' speech or Neville Chamberlain's 1938 '. The use of multimedia, in particular the sound clips, is imaginatively exploited - historians can hear Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream. 'Hot' words, highlighted in red, take you to cross-references when clicked on with the mouse pointer and there is an extensive bibliography, also but a click away. Though I could not find Django Reindhart in the index, searching the entire text found him under the entries for Stephan Grapelli and Jazz, and the latter yielded a sound-clip of him playing. Though this can be confusing, it can yield dividends. If the index fails you, there are ways of searching the entire text for certain words. A scrolling list keeps up with your typing, so if you understandably start to flounder after the first few letters you should be near enough to find your destination.Īlternatively, you could browse through the life-science category to the mammals group, choose horses from the list of topics and maybe stop off at the Eohippus, Mountain zebra, and Appaloosa on the way. Hence, if you wanted to find out about the habits of Przhevalski's horse - as one does - you could go straight to the index and type the word in. As well as the conventional A-Z index, you can take a guided tour or explore any of 93 groups of topics under nine categories. When you open the encyclopaedia, you have a variety of ways of exploring.