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Famous First Facts contains all of the entries
from the revised Fifth Edition of Famous First Facts. Since the first
publication, in 1933, through the Fifth Edition, published in 1997, Famous
First Facts has been the standard record of notable American firsts.
The entries are searchable by subject,
name, city, state, and date, as well as by keyword.
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Fields
Limit Fields
Stopwords
Fields
Highlighted fields are limit fields.
There is also a special subset of fields, Citation
(CITN), which consists of the SJ, FF, and CP fields. This is the record as
it appears in the print version of Famous First Facts. Use Citation to
display, print, or save only these fields for a set of records.
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AN Accession Number
(a limit field)
an=bfff97135280
bfff97135479 in an
The AN field contains a unique twelve digit
code (4 letters identifying the database, followed by 8 numbers) which
identifies the document.
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CP Copyright
The CP field contains the H.W. Wilson
copyright statement. This field is displayed in records but is not
searchable.
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CTY City
(a limit field)
boston in cty
cty=new york
The CTY field lists the city in which an
event occurred.
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DA Date
(a limit field)
Feb 2 1990 in da
da=Feb 2 1990
The DA field contains the date of the
event. You can search on a specific date (Feb 2 1990), on a day of any
year (Feb 2), or on a year (1990). You may spell out the month(s) or use
three-letter abbreviation(s).
Note: If you wish to search a range of
years use the YR field.
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DE Descriptor
(a limit field)
de=taxation
fountain pen in de
The DE field lists subject terms specific
to the events described in the Fact article. This field can include
personal names and the subject or topic of the entry. Specifically, this
topic contains the names from the PSN field, terms from the article
heading (SJ), and the phrase at the beginning of the entry.
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DT Record Type
(a limit field)
The DT field describes the contents of the
original record. The only record types found in Famous First Facts are
"article" record types.
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FF Fact
The FF field contains the text of the
entry.
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GEO Geographic Place
(a limit field)
geo=massachusetts-boston
The GEO field lists the state and city of
an event. The state and city are listed as one term with the state
preceeding the city so that you may easily browse the index and see a list
of all cities for each state.
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PL State or Country
(a limit field)
massachusetts in pl
pl=Calilfornia
The PL field lists the state or country in
which an event occurred.
Note: In Famous First Facts all entries are from the United States.
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PSN Personal Name
(a limit field)
The PSN field contains the names of persons
associated with the "firsts" described in the article.
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PY Publication Year
(a limit field)
py=1997
The PY field indicates the publication year
of the book in which the article appears.
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SO Source
(a limit field)
so=Famous First Facts
The SO field lists the title of the book in
which the article appears.
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SJ Article Heading
The SJ field contains the heading for the
article. If you wish to search these terms the SU and DE limit fields will
give better results.
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SU Main Heading
(a limit field)
The SU field contains an indexed version of
the article heading (SJ) for the entry. All of the SU terms are also found
in the DE field.
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TXI Text Indicator
(a limit field)
txi=y
The TXI field indicates whether the article
is full text. If it is a full text article, the field will contain the
letter "y' otherwise, it will be blank. All Article record types in
this database are full text and will contain a "y" in this
field.
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YR Year of Event
(a limit field)
1990 in yr
yr=1990
yr=1950-1960
The YR field contains the year of the
event. You can use this field to search a range of years.
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CITN Citation
The Citation is a subset of the following
fields:
Article Heading (SJ)
Fact (FF)
Copyright (CP)
The Citation serves as an easy way to
display, print, or save only these fields for a set of records. The
Citation is the main portion of a record, very similar to how the record
appears in the print version of Famous First Facts.
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Limit Fields
The limit fields listed below are specially
indexed fields. You can use the indexes to see lists of these terms. Limit
fields, when combined with other search terms, are particularly useful for
focusing or limiting a search.
Accession Number (AN)
City (CTY)
Date (DA)
Descriptor (DE)
Geographic Place (GEO)
Main Heading (SU)
Personal Name (PSN)
Publication Year (PY)
Record Type (DT)
Source (SO)
State or Country (PL)
Text Indicator (TXI)
Year of Event (YR)
You can search these fields with in
or =. For example, to retrieve entries about events that occurred
in Texas, you could type: texas in pl or pl=texas.
In addition to in and =, the
following operators may be used with the YR field:
< less
than,
such as yr<1990
> greater
than,
such as yr>1990
<= less
than or equal to,
such as yr<=1990
>= greater
than or equal to,
such as yr>=1990
- within
a range,
such as yr=1900-1950
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Stopwords
Words of little intrinsic meaning that
appear too frequently to be useful in searching text are known as "stopwords".
You can not search for the following stopwords by themselves, but you can
include them within phrases:
an
and
are
for
from
in
not
of
or
that
the
was
were
which
with
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