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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 reputed author of the first German version of "Reynard the Fox."
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The residence of Sir Walter Scott, on the Tweed, near Melrose, built by him on the site of a farm called Clarty Hole.
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The results, acute or chronic, of the deleterious action of alcohol on the human system.
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The Roman Consul who fell at Cannae, 216 B.C.; also his son, surnamed Macedonicus, so called as having defeated Perseus at Pydna, in Macedonia.
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The Royalist and High Church party in England under Charles II., so called from their abhorrence of the principles of their opponents.
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The sacred live bull of the Egyptians, the incarnation of Osiris; must be black all over the body, have a white triangular spot on the forehead, the figure of an eagle on the back, and under the tongue the image of a scarabaeus; was at the end of 25 years drowned in a sacred fountain, had his body embalmed, and his mummy regarded as an object of worship.
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The science of man as he exists or has existed under different physical and social conditions.
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The science of sound as it affects the ear, specially of the laws to be observed in the construction of halls so that people may distinctly hear in them.
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