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  1. Mar 2023
    1. Nach anderweitig erfolglos gebliebenen Versuchen wurde 1897 ein Immediatgesuch an Kaiser Wilhelm II. gerichtet und "durch Allerhöchsten Erlaß ... Allergnädigst bewilligt". Für das auf 11 Jahre bis zur Manuskripterstellung veranschlagte Wörterbuchprojekt stand damit die damals erkleckliche Summe von 70.000 M aus Mitteln des Reiches zur Verfügung.

      Kaiser Wilhelm II appropriated 70,000 M in 1897 to help fund the estimated 11 year dictionary project that would be known as the Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache.

  2. Jul 2022
    1. It wasnot until we had completely re-sorted all our innumerable sheets ofpaper according to subjects, thus bringing together all the facts relatingto each, whatever the trade concerned, or the place or the date—andhad shuffled and reshuffled these sheets according to various tentativehypotheses—that a clear, comprehensive and verifiable theory of theworking and results of Trade Unionism emerged in our minds; tobe embodied, after further researches by way of verification, in ourIndustrial Democracy (1897).

      Beatrice Webb was using her custom note taking system in the lead up to the research that resulted in the publication of Industrial Democracy (1897).

      Is there evidence that she was practicing this note taking/database practice earlier than this?