When questioning someone who was offering more opinions than observations he would often interrupt and say. "Just the facts." Those few words sum up the history of a publication that has grown from an indepth look at World War II to an incredible collection of all forms of data that covers just about everything from the beginnings of recorded history to the exploration of the furthest ranges of our universe. Sixtyfive years ago. Facts on File World News Digest was founded in 1940 by three emigrants from Hitlers Europe who knew there would be a need for a publication devoted to the issues of World War 11. They had witnessed the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and recognized the need for a U.S.-based publication that focused on both world and domestic news events in the years leading up to World War II. Their first issue dealt with the presidential race between Roosevelt and Wilkie and their first bound volume of the events of the day was written. as described in the forward. as an effort to provide a clear and concise guide to help the reader navigate through a "hopeless maze of thousands of facts." Nowadays. by comparison. we are deluged by tens of millions of facts and other pieces of data from around the world almost every day.
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