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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004 (World Almanac & Book of Facts)

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While there are a few almanacs that purport to be world comprehensive, each one seems to have a particular emphasis or general perspective--subtle as it may be. Thus, the World Almanac 2004 captures in exceptional detail news, statistics, and histories primarily associated with the U.S.

The histories included are by themselves a gem of discovery, especially the year-by-year capsules of U.S. history. Also, the biographies of U.S. presidents, the review of the amendments, and the state-by-state geographical summaries are presented with well-organized brevity.

Crossing international lines, the almnanac also covers the highlights in astronomy, science and technology, and a fascinating chronology of human spaceflight. The summations of the world's nations are concise and intriguing, including even the official web site for each country.

For the sheer numbers of it all, The World Almanac 2004 is quite impressive. Also, I highly recommend the hardcover edition as it contains much larger print and can easily lie open by itself.

First of all, this will be a great almanac for you if you are focusing only on US studies. This book contains everything from main events to average teacher salaries, and many other useful (and weird) facts of the united states. However, when i tried to look up information on India and Argentina, it contains very few information. I'll guess that 97% of the book focuses only on America and have minor out-of-date information on other countries. Two stars is for the indepth info on united states, and the missing three stars are for naming the book "world" almanac even though it does not focus on the world. May as well be the United States Almanac for the hunnger-for-weird-facts.