The reason that The Wonderland of Knowledge went out of business may be it’s totally lack of unbiased reporting.  We first saw this a few weeks ago in the encyclopedia’s entry on “Hitler.”
And now Wonderland shows its true colors once again:
 

Come on, encyclopedia! First you call Hitler “a modern Caesar” and now lacrosse is “fast and exciting?” [...]

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If any of you are following me over at Twitter, you know that I love puns.
However, and I find this a little surprising, as I read through The Wonderland of Knowledge, it would seem that there is nothing that will infuriate me as much as a stupid pun in this book. I don’t know if [...]

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Once again we dive into the archives from the incredibly prolific career of travel author/journalist Felix Runwald. Runwald’s work, unfortunately, has been uncollected, due to the fact that it would be nearly impossible to do so (it spans from the early twenties to today).
In this installment, I have selected Runwald’s New York Times Op/Ed piece [...]

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Before I begin, this website will not have an April Fool’s prank. Also, me saying that there will be no prank is not a prank. And now I will continue with what I had planned on doing: speaking to a set of encyclopedia from the sixties as if it were a human being.
Look, Wonderland of [...]

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Hamster History Month continues with an all new Famous Hamsters in History (brought to you by State Farm Insurance)!
Hershey: Apostle

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I do not know who Robert Clive, or “Clive,” as The Wonderland of Knowledge refers to him. I did not read the article that was written about him in the book. I did not look him up on Wikipedia to get more information. I know nothing about this man.
 

I just want to know why [...]

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All right I feel weird posting this, but…

Now, I recognize that a reference text needs to stay relatively unbiased, but doesn’t the text that goes with this photo just seem not critical enough? By which I mean “in no way critical?”

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The Wonderland of Knowledge was written with more hyperbole than any other English-language written in the history of mankind. In the past I’ve highlighted their overwrought, overly-important introductions that exaggerate the significance of whatever entry they’re talking about to amazing heights.
Apparently they ran out of steam when it came to “Forests and Forestry.”
“Do you live in [...]

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Okay, so. If you recall, the initial mission statement of The Wonderland of Knowledge Wednesdays was to prove once and for all that I, Ramsey Ess, am better than anyone that lived in 1968. This should be a tall order to fill. However, if they keep tossing me softballs like the entry for “blindness,” I’m going [...]

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I’m about to drop some Wonderland of Knowledge on y’all!
In 2009, after Canada, Australia is probably the country that American’s feel the most comfortable with. We all speak the same language, though we find their particular vernacular delightfully cartoonish. We make references to their cultural identity (”dingos,” “shrimp,” “barbies”) without understanding the significance or meaning [...]

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