Discovery Channel is an American satellite
and cable
specialty channel...
National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine,
is the...
History Today is an illustrated history magazine. Published...
4. QUORA
Quora is a question and answer website created, edited and
organized...
5. WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free
Internet...
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Discovery Channel is an
American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks on 17 June 1985 and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.
It provides documentary television programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history. In the U.S., the programming for the main Discovery network is primarily focused on reality television themes, such as speculative investigation (with shows such as MythBusters, Unsolved History, and Best Evidence), automobiles, and occupations (Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch); it also features documentaries specifically aimed at families and younger audiences. A popular annual feature is Shark Week. The channel has its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.
It provides documentary television programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history. In the U.S., the programming for the main Discovery network is primarily focused on reality television themes, such as speculative investigation (with shows such as MythBusters, Unsolved History, and Best Evidence), automobiles, and occupations (Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch); it also features documentaries specifically aimed at families and younger audiences. A popular annual feature is Shark Week. The channel has its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.
National Geographic,
formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official magazine of the
National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine
months after the Society itself was founded. There are 12 monthly issues of the
National Geographic per year, plus additional map supplements. The Magazine is
available in its traditional printed edition and through an interactive online
edition. On occasion, special editions of the Magazine are issued. It contains
articles about geography, popular science, history, culture, current events,
and photography.
By 2011, the magazine was circulated worldwide in thirty-six language editions and had a global circulation of 8.3 million. In the United States, the circulation is around 5 million every month. In May 2006, 2007, and 2011 National Geographic magazine won the American Society of Magazine Editors' General Excellence Award in the over two million circulation category. In 2010, National Geographic Magazine received the top ASME awards for photojournalism and essay. In 2011, National Geographic Magazine received the top-award from ASME—the Magazine of the Year Award.
History Today is an
illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951,
it is the world's leading, and possibly oldest, history magazine. It aims to
present serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible.
It covers all periods and geographical regions and publishes articles of traditional narrative history alongside new research and historiography. Founded by Brendan Bracken, Minister of Information after the Second World War, chairman of the Financial Times and lieutenant to Sir Winston Churchill, the magazine has been independently owned since 1981. The current editor is Paul Lay.
It covers all periods and geographical regions and publishes articles of traditional narrative history alongside new research and historiography. Founded by Brendan Bracken, Minister of Information after the Second World War, chairman of the Financial Times and lieutenant to Sir Winston Churchill, the magazine has been independently owned since 1981. The current editor is Paul Lay.
Quora is a question and answer
website created, edited and organized by its community of users. The company
was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on
June 21, 2010.
Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers. Quora's main competitors are social bookmarking sites like reddit, social networking sites like ChaCha, and numerous question and answer websites. Quora was co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. D'Angelo resigned from his position at Facebook in January 2010 to create Quora. Quora's base of users grew quickly in December 2010. Quora had an estimated 500,000 registered users, as of January 2011. In June 2011, Quora redesigned its website, in order to make information discovery and navigation easier. Some noted that the redesigned site had definite similarities to Wikipedia. Quora released an official iPhone app on September 29, 201 and an official Android app on September 5, 2012.
Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers. Quora's main competitors are social bookmarking sites like reddit, social networking sites like ChaCha, and numerous question and answer websites. Quora was co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. D'Angelo resigned from his position at Facebook in January 2010 to create Quora. Quora's base of users grew quickly in December 2010. Quora had an estimated 500,000 registered users, as of January 2011. In June 2011, Quora redesigned its website, in order to make information discovery and navigation easier. Some noted that the redesigned site had definite similarities to Wikipedia. Quora released an official iPhone app on September 29, 201 and an official Android app on September 5, 2012.
5. WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia is a
collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by
the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 26 million articles in 286 languages,
including over 4.2 million in the English Wikipedia, are written
collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can
be edited by anyone with access to the site. It has become the largest and most
popular general reference work on the Internet, ranking sixth globally among
all websites on Alexa and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide.
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
Wikipedia’s departure from the expert-driven style of encyclopedia building and
the presence of a large body of unacademic content have received extensive
attention in print media. In 2006, Time magazine recognized Wikipedia's
participation in the rapid growth of online collaboration and interaction by millions
of people around the world, in addition to YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook.
Wikipedia has also been praised as a news source due to articles related to
breaking news often being rapidly updated.
The open nature of Wikipedia has led to various concerns, such as the quality of writing, the amount of vandalism and the accuracy of information. Some articles contain unverified or inconsistent information, though a 2005 investigation in Nature showed that the science articles they compared came close to the level of accuracy of Encyclopedia Britannica and had a similar rate of "serious errors". Britannica replied that the study's methodology and conclusions were flawed, but Nature reacted to this refutation with both a formal response and a point-by-point rebuttal of Britannica's main objections.
The open nature of Wikipedia has led to various concerns, such as the quality of writing, the amount of vandalism and the accuracy of information. Some articles contain unverified or inconsistent information, though a 2005 investigation in Nature showed that the science articles they compared came close to the level of accuracy of Encyclopedia Britannica and had a similar rate of "serious errors". Britannica replied that the study's methodology and conclusions were flawed, but Nature reacted to this refutation with both a formal response and a point-by-point rebuttal of Britannica's main objections.
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