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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 ...
Name applied to Andrew Marvell from his corresponding incorruptible integrity in life and poverty at death.
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An association, of Sir David Brewster's suggestion, of men of all departments of science for the encouragement of scientific research and the diffusion of scientific knowledge, which holds its meetings annually under the presidency of some distinguished scientist, now in this, now in that selected central city of the country; it is divided into eight sections—mathematical, chemical, geological, biological, geographical, economic, mechanical, and anthropological.
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A western fertile prov. of British America, extending between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific, and from the United States on the S. to Alaska on the N., being 800 m. long and four times the size of Great Britain; rich in timber and minerals; rain is abundant, and cereals do well.
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A national institution in London for the collection of MSS., books, prints and drawings, antiquities, and objects of natural history, ethnology, etc.; founded as far back as 1700, though not opened, in Montagu House as it happened, for the public benefit till 1759.
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Is a lady knight in the "Faerie Queene," representing chastity with a resistless magic spear.
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An old French prov., land of the Bretons, comprising the peninsula opposite Devon and Cornwall, stretching westward between the Bays of Cancale and Biscay, was in former times a duchy; a third of its inhabitants still retain their Breton language.
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A southern suburb of London, on the Surrey side, a district of the city that has of late years extended immensely.
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A coalition of great weight under Mr. Pelham, from Nov. 1744 to Mar. 1755, so called from the powerful parties represented in it.
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