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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 ...
The lives of the saints in 62 vols. folio, begun in the 17th century by the Jesuits, and carried on by the Bollandists.
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The magnetic equator, along which the needle always remains horizontal.
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The Moorish governor of Spain, defeated by Charles Martel at Tours in 732.
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The most celebrated painter of antiquity; bred, if not born, at Ephesus; lived at the court of Alexander the Great; his great work "Aphrodité Anadyomene"; a man conscious, like Dürer, of mastery in his art, as comes out in his advice to the criticising shoemaker to "stick to his last."
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The most distinguished of Spanish sculptors, born near Cordova, and patronised by Napoleon, who presented him with a gold medal, but to whom, for his treatment of his country, he conceived so great an aversion, that he would never model a bust of him (1768-1827).
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The most northern of the Cyclades, fertile soil and productive of wine and silk.
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The most vehement accuser of Socrates; banished in consequence from Athens, after Socrates' death.
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The name generally given to the confederate Powers who in 1814 and 1815 entered France and restored the Bourbons.
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