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Article: African history from aardwolves to Zulus.(cd-rom)(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 8, 1999
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How would you write the encyclopedia entry for "break dancing"? Or a better question: Why would you write about the acrobatic dance craze of the 1980s in the first place? Microsoft's new Encarta Africana, a lavish, two-disk CD-ROM set, addresses these and thousands of other curiosities engagingly, creatively, and in a format perfectly suited to such a gargantuan task.
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