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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 ...
A bathing-place on the Bay of Biscay, 6 m. SW. of Bayonne; became a place of fashionable resort by the visits of the Empress Eugenie.
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One of the seven wise men of Greece, born at Priene, in Ionia; lived in the 6th century B.C.; many wise sayings are ascribed to him; was distinguished for his indifference to possessions, which moth and rust can corrupt, and thieves break through and steal.
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(Bible of the Poor), a book consisting of some 50 leaves, with pictures of scenes in the Life of Christ, and explanatory inscriptions, printed, from wooden blocks, in the 15th century, and before the invention of printing by movable types.
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A hospital, originally a Carthusian monastery, in the S. side of Paris, with a commanding view of the Seine and the city; since used for old soldiers, and now for confirmed lunatics.
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An exhortation to prayer in some special reference, followed by the Lord's Prayer, in which the congregation joins.
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Or Pilpai, the presumed author of a collection of Hindu fables of ancient date, in extensive circulation over the East, and widely translated.
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A comet discovered by Biela, an Austrian officer, in 1826; appears, sometimes unobserved, every six years.
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A manufacturing town in Westphalia, with a large trade in linen, and the centre of the trade.
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