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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 ...
Name given to the Bight of Benin, in West Africa, from Lagos to the Volta River.
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Name given to the inhabitants of Boeotia, from Thebes, the capital; were reckoned dull and stupid by the Athenians.
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Name given to the method of determining the composition of a body by means of the spectrum of light which it gives forth or passes through it, founded on the principle that a substance powerfully absorbs exactly the rays it radiates, and every substance has its own absorbing powers; or it may be defined the method of distinguishing different kinds of matter by their properties in relation to light.
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Name given to the modern science of the relation between heat and work, which has established two fundamental principles, that when heat is employed to do work, the work done is the exact equivalent of the heat expended, and when the work is employed to produce heat, the heat produced is exactly equivalent to the work done.
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Name given to the supposed power of communication between mind and mind otherwise than by the ordinary sense vehicles.
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Name given to the tendon of the leg above the heel, so called as being the tendon by which Thetis held Achilles when she dipped him in the Styx, and where alone he was in consequence vulnerable.
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Name given to the Times, from certain powerful articles in it ascribed to the editor, Captain Edward Stirling.
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Name given to thin boards coated with wax and included in a frame for writing on with a stylus.
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Name of a grammarian and lexicographer of the 10th or 11th century; his "Lexicon" is a kind of encyclopaedic work, and is valuable chiefly for the extracts it contains from ancient writers.
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