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* There is an encyclopaedic dictionary of the Spanish language. It includes—aside from definitions—short biographies, maps, diagrams (including a full page schematic of a pocket watch); and the appendices include difficulties of the language, a preposition guide, and a compendium of Spanish conjugations (Spanish is a hard language). Everything in three volumes totalling 3200 pages.
* The ''[[wikipedia:Merck Index|Merck Index]]'' is about 2198 pages.
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* The German dictionary and encyclopaedia ''Grimm'' currently consists (it is still updated an added to) of about 35 books between five and ten cm thick. And this is the ''paperback'' edition.
* During the Ming Dynasty at least 3,000 scholars spent 4 years, beginning in 1403, working on the Yongle Dadian, an encyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters. There are an estimated 370 million Chinese characters used.
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