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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 seal of the sovereign appended to grants that do not require to pass the great seal.
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The serous membrane that lines the interior of the thorax and invests the lungs.
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The seven colors a ray of pure white light is resolved into when refracted through a prism, applied figuratively by Carlyle to the pure light refracted through the soul of a man of genius.
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The seventh city of India, in Bengal, at the junction of the Son, the Gandak, and the Ganges; is admirably situated for commerce; has excellent railway communication, and trades largely in cotton, oil-seeds, and salt. It is a poor city with narrow streets, and except the Government buildings, Patna College, a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a mosque, has scarcely any good buildings. At Dinapur, its military station, 6 m. to the W., mutiny broke out in 1857. It is famous for its rice, but this is largely a re-export.
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The sister of Philomela and wife of Tereus, changed into a swallow by the gods. See Tereus.
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The Society of Friends, so called first by Justice Bennet of Derby, because Fox bade him quake before the Lord.
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The son of Aeacus, the husband of Thetis, the father of Achilles, and one of the Argonauts, after whom Achilles is named Pelides, i. e. Peleus' boy.
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The Sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons in Great Britain.
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