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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 French architect and sculptor; built the tombs of Montmorency, Henry II., and Catherine de Medicis, as well as wrought at the Tuileries and the Louvre (1510-1578).
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In the Stock Exchange, the bull being one who buys in the hope that the value may rise, and the bear one who sells in the hope that it may fall. See Bear.
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A French littérateur, born near Geneva; originator of the Revue des Deux Mondes (1803-1877).
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A German historian, author of a "History of the Seven Years' War" (1697-1762).
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A district in N. Carolina, for the ears of the constituency of which a dull speech was some years ago delivered in the U.S. Congress, whence the phrase to "talk Buncombe," i. e. to please one's constituency.
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A territory in NW. Provinces, India, between the Chambal and the Jumna; has been extensively irrigated at great labor and expense.
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An eminence 112 ft., now included in Boston, the scene on 19th June 1775 of the first great battle in the American War of Independence.
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A small gas-jet above which is screwed a brass tube with holes at the bottom of it to let in air, which burns with the gas, and causes at the top a non-luminous flame; largely used in chemical operations.
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An Italian artist, born at Florence, one of the greatest, being, like Michael Angelo, at once architect, painter, and sculptor (1536-1608).
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Swiss historian and archaeologist, born at Bale, author of "Civilisation in Italy during the Renaissance"; born 1818.
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