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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 ...
Checking hemorrhage in arteries during an operation by compressing their orifices with a needle.
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Chief counsel for the Crown in Scotland, public prosecutor of crimes, and a member of the administration in power.
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Corrupt minister of France, previously under trial for official plunder of money, which was quashed, at the corrupt court of Louis XV., and the tool of Mme. Du Barry, with whom he rose and fell (1720-1782).
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Count of Savoy, surnamed the Great from his wisdom and success as a ruler (1249-1323).
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Cross like a X, such having, it is said, been the form of the cross on which St. Andrew suffered.
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Czar of Russia, the father of Peter the Great, the first czar who acted on the policy of cultivating friendly relations with other European states (1630-1677).
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Daughter of Aeolus, who threw herself into the sea after her husband, who had perished in shipwreck, and was changed into the kingfisher.
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