Every Wednesday at RamseyEss.com, I highlight an entry from “The Wonderland of Knowledge,” an encyclopedia set for children from 1968 that I found on the street in Brooklyn, waiting for the garbage man. This week: “Grieg, Edvard Hagerup.”

Recently, the powers that be took national treasure Bea Arthur away from us. At the age of 86, Bea’s storied career spanned the stage, film and television. Though she lived a long, productive life, we morn her still and many fans have cried “too soon!”

However, if The Wonderland of Knowledge is to be believed, she may have had a much longer life than initially thought.

In their entry for Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, they include a portrait of the man performing. Let’s take a look?

I seems pretty clear to me that Bea Arthur was alive in Norway during the late-1800s.

The Wonderland of Knowledge encyclopedia set truly is the gateway to a wonderland of knowledge.