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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 ...
An old town in the dep. of Cotes du Nord, France, 14 m. S. of St. Malo; most picturesquely situated on the top of a steep hill, amid romantic scenery, of great archaeological interest; the birthplace of Duclos.
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An old town on the Meuse, 14 m. S. of Namur, Belgium; noted for its gingerbread, and formerly for its copper wares, called Dinanderie.
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A town and military station on the right bank of the Ganges, 12 m. NW. of Patna.
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A range of the Eastern Alps in Austria, runs SE. and parallel with the Adriatic, connecting the Julian Alps with the Balkans.
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A German poet, novelist, and essayist, born near Marburg; was the Duke of Wurtemberg's librarian at Stuttgart, and theatre superintendent at Munich, Weimar, and Vienna successively; his poems show delicacy of sentiment and graphic power (1814-1881).
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An African pastoral people occupying a flat country traversed by the White Nile; of good stature, clean habits; of semi-civilized manners, and ferocious in war.
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A Macedonian architect, who, in the time of Alexander the Great, rebuilt the Temple of Ephesus destroyed by the torch of Erostratus; was employed by Alexander in the building of Alexandria.
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