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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 ...
Ein Dorf in Virginia, USA, in dem General Lee sich General Grant in 1865 ergab.
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Der vierte Monat des Jahres, der Monat der "Öffnung des Lichts in den Tag, und das Leben der Blätter und der Stimmen der Vögel, und die Herzen der Menschen."
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Die Weitergabe der bischöflichen Macht in einer ununterbrochenen Linie von den Aposteln, eine Qualifikation von hohen Kirchenmänner als unentbehrlich geglaubt, um die Wahrnehmung bischöflicher Funktionen und die Übertragung der versprochenen göttlichen Gnade zu gewaehrleisten.
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Queen Elizabeth's favourite, fifth son of the Duke of Northumberland; won the queen's favour by his handsome appearance and courtly address; received many offices and honors, and on the death, under suspicious circumstances, of his Countess, Amy Robsart, aspired to her hand; still favoured, in spite of his unpopularity in the country, he was proposed as husband to Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1563; he married the dowager Lady Sheffield in 1573, and afterwards bigamously the Countess of Essex; after a short term of disfavour he was appointed commander in the Netherlands, and subsequently at Tilbury Fort, but proved an incapable soldier (1532-1588).
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A celebrated French grammarian and lexicographer; best known by his "Grand Dictionnaire Universel du xix<sup>me</sup> Siècle" (1817-1875).
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French diplomatist, born at Versailles; conceived the scheme of connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean in 1854, and saw it finished as the Suez Canal in 1869; projected a similar scheme for a canal at Panama, but it ended in failure, disgrace, and ruin to the projectors as well as others (1805-1894).
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Born at Fontelle, in Aube, who came up to Paris a shifty adventuress and played a chief part in the notorious affair of the Diamond Necklace, which involved so many high people in France in deep disgrace (1756-1791). See Carlyle's "Miscellanies."
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Ein neugieriger Vogel in Neu Seeland mit rudimentären Flügel, Gefieder wie Haaren, und keinem Schwanz.
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Ein Student Platos, in Nordafrika geboren, lebte im 2. Jahrhundert; nachdem er eine reiche Witwe faszinierte, wurde auf einmal mit Zauberei erhoben, sein berühmtestes Werk war der "Goldene Esel", der, neben anderen Geschichten, die exquisite Romantize der Psyche und Amor enthielt.
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Eine alte Provinz im Suedosten Italiens, estreckte sich noerdlich bis zum Monte Gargano, und war der Schauplatz der letzten Phase des zweiten punischen Krieges.
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