- Industry: Library & information science
- Number of terms: 49473
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 ...
Extends from Mexico on the north to Panama on the south, and is about six times as large as Ireland; is a plateau with terraces descending to the sea on each side, and rich in all kinds of tropical vegetation; consists of seven political divisions: Guatemala, San Salvador, British Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mosquitia, and Costa Rica.
Industry:Language
Figures carved out of a tablet so as to project at least one half from its surface.
Industry:Language
First Protestant bishop of Jerusalem, of Jewish birth, cut off during a journey to Cairo (1799-1845).
Industry:Language
Francesco Albani; A. of Persia, Häfiz; A. of the Guillotine, Barère.
Industry:Language
George Eliot's first novel, published anonymously in 1859, took at once with both critic and public.
Industry:Language
Grand-almoner of France and bishop of Auxerre; was of humble birth; was tutor of Charles, who appointed him grand-almoner; he was the translator, among other works, of Plutarch into French, which remains to-day one of the finest monuments of the old literature of France, it was much esteemed by Montaigne (1513-1593).
Industry:Language
