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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 virgin who suffered martyrdom, was beheaded because the flames would not touch her body, under Diocletian in 303; represented in art as holding a palm-branch in her hand and a lamb at her feet or in her arms. Festival, Jan. 21.
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A viscous gum obtained from certain sea-weeds, used as size for textile fabrics, and for thickening soups and jellies.
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A volcano of the N. Andes, in Ecuador, 19,200 ft. high; also a village on its flanks, 13,000 ft. high, the highest village in the world.
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A wandering race of negro dwarfs in Central Africa, with large heads and slender necks, who live by hunting.
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A warlike race of the Sinaitic peninsula, which gave much trouble to the Israelites in the wilderness; were as good as annihilated by King David.
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A weakness or loss of vision, the cause of which was at one time unknown.
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A well-known American classical scholar and editor of the Classics (1797-1867).
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A wonderful horse of Mahomet, an impersonation of the lightning as his steed.
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