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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 an ungraceful and indecent dance practised in the Paris dancing saloons.
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The ancient name of Crete, now the name of the capital, in the centre of the N. coast.
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A philosophic romance by Voltaire, and written in ridicule of the famous maxim of Leibnitz, "All for the best in the best of all possible worlds"; it is a sweeping satire, and "religion, political government, national manners, human weakness, ambition, love, loyalty, all come in for a sneer."
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A festival in commemoration of the purification of the Virgin, held on February 2, celebrated with lighted candles; an old Roman custom in honor of the goddess Februa.
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Chief commercial town in Crete, on NW. coast; trades in wax, oil, fruit, wool, and silk.
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Ancient town in Apulia, near the mouth of the Aufidus, where Hannibal, in a great battle, defeated the Romans in 216 B.C., but failing to follow up his success by a march on Rome, was twitted by Maherbal, one of his officers, who addressing him said, "You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory."
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A French watering-place and health resort on the Mediterranean, in the SE. of France, where Napoleon landed on his return from Elba.
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The name given to the body of Scripture accepted by the Church as of divine authority.
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A gorge in Arizona through which the Colorado River flows, the largest and deepest in the world, being 300 m. long, with a wall from 3000 to 6000 ft. in perpendicular height.
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In the Romish Church, is the solemn declaration by the Pope that a servant of God, renowned for his virtue and for miracles he has wrought, is to be publicly venerated by the whole Church, termed Saint, and honored by a special festival. A preparatory stage is beatification, and the beatification and canonization of a saint are promoted by a long, tedious, and costly process, much resembling a suit at law.
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