Magazines are publications that come out several times a year. They can be delivered to homes through the mail and they are also for sale at newsstands and at supermarket counters. These publications usually contain articles and photographs by many different writers and photographers. Each magazine has a particular focus, such as celebrity gossip or physical fitness.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/magazine
Most magazines come out with an issue each month, but some come out weekly and others come out three or four times per year. Some magazines name their issues by the month they come out. Others number each issue.
Some organizations give away or mail free magazines as part of their publicity campaignes. One such organization is Loma Linda University.https://lomalindahealth.org/sem/childrens/index.php?gclid=CKDosMCIpaECFSCjiQodwxTvyA Other businesses or organizations that mail or give away free magazines are USAA Insurance and Century 21 Realtors.
Two large companies which publish many magazines are Hearst Corporation and Time Warner.http://www.hearst.com/ http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ Hearst Corporation is the largest magazine company in the world. It puts out more than 200 magazines worldwide, including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, House Beautiful Popular Mechanics, Seventeen, Redbook, Good Housekeeping and Harper's Bazaar.http://www.hearst.com/magazines/index.php Time Warner is the parent company of Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Life Magazine, Essence Magazine, House to Home and Entertainment Magazine.http://www.timewarner.com/corp/
The 2000s in Magazine Covers
This video shows most of the popular magazine covers from the 2000s. It serves as a review of everything that happened in the 2000s. The dot com industry collapsed. Enron failed. Cheap oil became a thing of the past. Google came into power. Barrack Obama ran for President and won. Remember when Dick Cheney accidentally shot his hunting buddy? The Twilight Saga erupted into the movie scene.
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Fast Facts
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Etymology
French magasin, Italian magazzino, Arabic makhazin - storehouse - Used in English to mean a storehouse of information.
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Meaning 1
Publications that are issued several times per year and that contain articles and pictures from many different writers, often about a specific topic such as sports or fashion.
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Meaning 2
Compartments that are put in and taken out of guns for the purpose of rearming the weapons.
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Some Publication Examples
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Available By
Subscription or at Newsstands
