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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 ...
(Book to be read), the Bible of the Mohammedans, accepted among them as "the standard of all law and all practice; thing to be gone upon in speculation and life; it is read through in the mosques daily, and some of their doctors have read it 70,000 times, and hard reading it is"; it contains the teaching of Mahomet, collected by his disciples after his death, and arranged the longest chapters first and the shortest, which were the earliest, last; a confused book.
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(Breakers of images), the name given to a sect who, in the 8th century, opposed to the presence of images in churches and the worship paid to them, set about the demolition of them as savouring of idolatry, and even in 730 obtained a papal decree or condemnation of the practice; the enthusiasm died out in the next century, but the effect of it was felt in a controversy, which led to the separation of the Church of the East from that of the West.
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(Caesar of India), a title applied to Queen Victoria as Empress of India since 1876.
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(Cherry water), a liqueur formed from ripe cherries with the stones pounded in it after fermentation and then distilled.
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(Fifty), a hot sand wind which blows in Egypt from the desert for fifty days, chiefly before and after the month of May.
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(Gilded youth), name given to a body of young dandies who, after the fall of Robespierre, strove to bring about a counter-revolution.
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(I serve), the motto of the Black Prince, adopted from John of Bohemia, and since then that of the English Prince of Wales.
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(In the Supper of the Lord), a papal bull promulgated in the Middle Ages, denouncing excommunication against all who dispute the claims of the Church, and the promulgation of which was felt on all hands to be intolerable; the promulgation has been discontinued since 1773.
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(Jean, the Frenchman with the sword), a name given to Napoleon by his partisans who conspired for his restoration in 1814.
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(John Henry Brodribb), born near Glastonbury; was at first a clerk in London, appeared on the Sunderland stage in 1856, spent three years in Edinburgh, and gradually worked his way at Glasgow and Manchester, till he was invited to London ten years afterwards; his performance of Hamlet at the Lyceum in 1874 established his reputation as a tragedian; since then he has remained at the head of his profession, and both in this country and in America secured many triumphs in Macbeth, Shylock, and other Shakespearian characters, and in roles like those of Matthias in "The Bells," "Mephistopheles in Faust," etc.; he has contributed to the literature of Acting, and received knighthood in 1895: born 1838.
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