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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 Swedish general, the chief promoter of the revolution of 1808, who told Gustavus IV. to his face that he ought to retire (1759-1815).
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A Swedish physicist and professor at Upsala, distinguished for his studies on the solar spectrum; b. 1814.
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A Syrian garrison town 60 m. NE. of Aleppo; trade in hides, leather, and cotton.
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A territory originally of the German empire, ceded to Louis XIV. by the peace of Westphalia in 1648, but restored to Germany after the Franco-German war in 1870-71, by the peace of Frankfort; is under a governor general bearing the title of "Statthalter"; is a great wine-producing country, yields cereals and tobacco, its cotton manufacture the most important in Germany.
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A theologian and scholastic philosopher of French birth, renowned for his dialectic ability, his learning, his passion for Héloise, and his misfortunes; made conceivability the test of credibility, and was a great teacher in his day (1079-1142).
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A thriving old town on the Somme, 12 m. up, with an interesting house architecture, and a cathedral, unfinished, in the Flamboyant style.
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A thriving seaport on north bank of the Forth, in Clackmannan, 6 m. below Stirling, famous for its ale.
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A tissue of small vesicles filled with oily matter, in which there is no sensation, and a layer of which lies under the skin and gives smoothness and warmth to the body.
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A title borne by several members of the house of Valois—e. g. Charles of Valois, who fell at Crécy (1346); Jean IV., who fell at Agincourt (1415).
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