• the first textbook in Hungarian, an encyclopedia by János Apáczai Csere, was written and published in The Netherlands?
• the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1989) is the largest English language encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, covering over 100,000 topics?
• T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar was responsible for the creation of the first encyclopedia in Tamil?
• Hortus deliciarum (pictured) was a medieval illuminated encyclopedia created to teach about everything, including the torments of hell?

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• lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title?
• linguist Trygve Knudsen was co-editor of the dictionary Norsk Riksmålsordbok from 1925 until its completion in 1957?
• G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary?
• John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869?
• Ordbogen.com, the most popular online dictionary in Denmark, was relaunched after a predecessor was taken offline for over a year due to a lack of funding?
• Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum?
• despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
• in 1887, Marius Nygaard co-published a Latin-Norwegian dictionary which is still in use?
• the 2007 video game My Spanish Coach contains nearly 10,000 words in the game's dictionary that the player can learn?
• the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?