Geoff Burling wrote:
The only place that I suspect that the group behind the
Columbia
Encyclopedia could claim that we "stole" from their editorial selection
would be concerning proper names from the Bible: in my 4th edition of this
work, one of their boasting points is that they have an entry for *every*
proper name in the Bible, a claim that seems to be accurate from a quick
check.
Not at all. In the summer of 2002 these were stolen from "Easton's
Bible Dictionary" which was published in 1897, and is therfore in the
public domain. :-) Too bad! Columbia's out of luck on this.
Ec