Mortimer J. Adler

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Mortimer Adler,1989

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 07, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Dec 24, 2023
	Anniversary information added.		Jun 24, 2023
	Invalidated site: The New York Times - Mortimer Adler, 98, Dies; Helped Create Study of Classics.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 07, 2019
	Add new Web site: The New York Times - Mortimer Adler, 98, Dies; Helped Create Study of Classics.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 07, 2017
	Changed "including a two-volume Conspectus" to "which included a two-volume Conspectus."	John M. Cunningham Edward Wilde	Jun 03, 2015
	Add new Web site: American National Biography Online - Biography of Mortimer J. Adler.	Yamini Chauhan	Oct 03, 2013
	Add new Web site: Columbia University - Biography of Mortimer J. Adler.	Swati Chopra	Sep 12, 2011
	Media added.	Melissa Albert	May 25, 2010
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Aug 27, 2001
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998