we are going to do the encyclopedia and call it africana. 24 hours later ladies and gentlemen, we have our $2 million there was only one caveat. the insisted that we did it and deliver the encyclopedia in 18 months. they said can you do it? i said i can do it. we hired 45 people in staff at harvard square right on france's avenue, right next to the school. we wrote to about 450 scholars and anthony did, too. some in africa and china and israel and i don't care where they were. they were an expert on the experience and we wrote to them and 18 months later, ladies and gentlemen, november 1998 we shifted not 2 million words as the contract specified, but to point to 5 million words and on january 19th, 1999 dedicated in honor of nelson mandela and in memory of william edward burkhart, the encyclopedia africana was born. thank you very much. [applause] >> now two things i'm going to show since 1999, we have been through the cd-rom revolution and then of course the internet revolution and i want to show you how much we try to keep pace with that technological revolution. i will show you the