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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 parish in Finsbury, London, originally an aristocratic quarter, now the centre of the manufacture of jewellery and watches.
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The ancient capital of Auvergne and chief town of the dep. Puy-de-Dome; the birthplace of Pascal, Gregory of Tours, and Dessaix, and where, in 1095, Pope Urban II. convoked a council and decided on the first Crusade; it has been the scene of seven Church Councils.
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Marquis, minister of France under the Restoration of the Bourbons (1779-1865).
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Louis XVI.'s valet, who waited on him in his last hours, and has left an account of what he saw of his touching farewell with his family.
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A Prussian town 46 m. NW. of Dusseldorf, once the capital of a duchy connected by a canal with the Rhine; manufactures textile fabrics and tobacco.
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A fashionable suburb of Bristol, resorted to as a watering-place; romantically situated on the sides and crest of high cliffs, whence it name.
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The muse of history and epic poetry, represented as seated with a half-opened scroll in her hand.
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An Athenian, uncle of Pericles, procured the expulsion of Hippias the tyrant, 510 B.C., and the establishment of Ostracism.
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