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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 second president of the United States, and a chief promoter of their independence (1739-1826).
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The second son of Adam and Eve; slain by his brother. The death of Abel is the subject of a poem by Gessner and a tragedy by Legouvé.
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The second wife of Philip Augustus by a marriage in 1193, declared null by the Church, who, being dismissed in consequence, died broken-hearted in 1201.
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The son of Haroun-el-Raschid, the 7th Abbaside caliph, a great promoter of science and learning; b. 833.
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The son of Peleus and Thetis, king of the Myrmidons, the most famous of the Greek heroes in the Trojan war, and whose wrath with the consequences of it forms the subject of the Iliad of Homer. He was invulnerable except in the heel, at the point where his mother held him as she dipt his body in the Styx to render him invulnerable.
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The southernmost of the three Basque provinces of Spain, largest, but least populous; rich in minerals, and fertile in soil.
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The southernmost province of Portugal, hilly, but traversed with rich valleys, which yield olives, vines, oranges, etc.
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The third seaport-town in Spain, with a spacious harbour and strongly fortified, in a province of the same name on the Mediterranean.
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The tyrant of Syracuse, by the massacre of thousands of the inhabitants, was an enemy of the Carthaginians, and fought against them; was poisoned in the end (361-289 B.C.).
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The uncle of Sigismund, king of Poland, and a zealous promoter in Poland of the Reformation, the friend of Erasmus and Zwinglius (1499-1560).
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