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The Wide World Magazine

The Wide World Magazine is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Wide World Magazine rather than just read about it. In short: The Wide World Magazine was a British monthly illustrated publication which ran from April 1898 to December 1965. History The magazine was founded by well-known publisher George Newnes, also famous for Tit-Bits, The Strand Magazine, Country Life and others.

Key takeaways

The Wide World Magazine belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Wide World Magazine to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Wide World Magazine from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Wide World Magazine was a British monthly illustrated publication which ran from April 1898 to December 1965.

History The magazine was founded by well-known publisher George Newnes, also famous for Tit-Bits, The Strand Magazine, Country Life and others. It described itself as "an illustrated magazine of true narrative" and each month purported to feature "true-life" adventure and travel stories gathered from around the world. Its motto was "Truth is stranger than fiction". In August 1898, it published the first in a number of installments of "The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont", billed as "the most amazing story a man ever lived to tell", and claiming to be an account of a man who had spent thirty years in the outback of Australia. The story caused a sensation, but was exposed as a hoax by the Daily Chronicle, to the embarrassment of the publisher. Some famous names occasionally wrote for the magazine (such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Morton Stanley, Douglas Reeman etc.), and it was copiously illustrated with photographs, as well as black and white drawings by such artists as Terence Cuneo, Stuart Tresilian, Alfred Pearse, Chas Sheldon, Paul Hardy, William Barnes Wollen, John L. Wimbush, Charles J. Staniland, Joseph Finnemore, John Charlton, Warwick Goble, Tom Browne, Ernest Prater, Gordon Browne, Edward S. Hodgson, Norman H. Hardy, Inglis Sheldon Williams, and Harry Rountree. The May 1913 issue contained the first reports of the death of notorious outlaw Butch Cassidy in Bolivia. Ben Macintyre, writing in 2004, humorously described the magazine as being about "brave chaps with large moustaches on stiff upper lips, who did stupid and dangerous things".

Editions online

Selected stories Safont, Paul, ed. (2004). The Wide World: True Adventures for Men. London: Macmillan. ISBN 1405049316. A floating Gold-mine (story from The Wide World Magazine, May 1907 – "Welcome to Brightlingsea")

References

External links

Wide World Magazine – large format reproduction of several issues (Vol. 22, No. 127, Oct. 1908 to Mar. 1909) The Wide World Magazine – covers and tables of contents of selected issues The Wide World Magazine – covers and tables of contents of selected issues

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Wide World Magazine

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Wide World Magazine claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Wide World Magazine before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Wide World Magazine ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Wide World Magazine

In research: The Wide World Magazine appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Wide World Magazine in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Wide World Magazine is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom, Defunct tourism magazines, Fiction magazines, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Wide World Magazine outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Wide World Magazine in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Wide World Magazine means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The Wide World Magazine out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Wide World Magazine in simple terms?

The Wide World Magazine was a British monthly illustrated publication which ran from April 1898 to December 1965. History The magazine was founded by well-known publisher George Newnes, also famous for Tit-Bits, The Strand Magazine, Country Life and others.

Why does The Wide World Magazine matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Wide World Magazine?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Wide World Magazine.