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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The ...
The name of two districts, N. and S., in the Presidency of Madras; also chief town in the district, 65 m. SW. of Madras; captured by Clive in 1787; once the capital of the Carnatic.
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A circular ocean round the N. Pole, its diameter 40°, with low, flat shores, covered with ice-fields, including numerous islands; the Gulf Stream penetrates it, and a current flows out of it into the Atlantic.
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Star of the first magnitude and the chief in the N. constellation Bootes.
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An affluent of the Rhône, source in the Cévennes; gives name to a department traversed by the Cévennes Mountains.
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A forest, a tract of rugged woodland on the confines of France and Belgium; also department of France, on the borders of Belgium.
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A place in Perthshire, 7 m. from Crieff, with the remains of a Roman camp, the most complete in Britain.
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A prose work of Milton's, described by Prof. Saintsbury as "a magnificent search for the Dead Truth."
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The hill of Ares in Athens, which gave name to the celebrated council held there, a tribunal of 31 members, charged with judgment in criminal offences, and whose sentences were uniformly the awards of strictest justice.
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A city in Peru, founded by Pizarro in 1536, in a fruitful valley of the Andes, 8000 ft. above the sea, 30 m. inland; is much subject to earthquakes, and was almost destroyed by one in 1868.
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