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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 ...
Arcivescovo di Canterbury, nato a Chichester; divenne vescovo di successione di Worcester e di Londra e ha frequentato Charles I. in prigione e sul patibolo; visse nella privacy fino alla restaurazione, quattro mesi dopo che fu fatto arcivescovo e morì circa due anni dopo la sua elevazione (1582-1663). < hr / > <h2>K</h2>
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The weight of a body compared with another of equal bulk taken as a standard, such as the weight of a cubic inch of water.
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Scottish antiquary; author of "The Sculptured Stones of Scotland," "The Book of Deer," and frequent contributor to the Proceedings of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries; held a post in the Register House for 24 years (1813-1877).
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The artist minister of Duddingston, born at Dailly, in Ayrshire; succeeded his father in the parish of Dailly (1800), and five years later was transferred to Duddingston parish, near Edinburgh; faithful in the discharge of his parochial duties, he yet found time to cultivate his favourite art of painting, and in the course of his 35 years' pastorate produced a series of landscapes which won him wide celebrity in his own day, and have set him in the front rank of Scottish artists (1778-1840).
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Two ancient cities which, for their wickedness were, as the Bible relates, consumed with fire from heaven; they are supposed to have stood near the S. border of the Dead Sea, though they were not, as was at one time supposed, submerged in the waters of it.
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Parlemen dibedakan umum, keponakan dari sebelumnya, lahir di Denton, Yorkshire; melayani di Belanda, tetapi pada tahun 1642 bergabung Parlemen, pasukan yang ia menjadi umum (1645); setelah membedakan dirinya di Marston Moor dan Naseby, digantikan oleh Cromwell (1650), dan pensiun ke pribadi hidup sampai mati Cromwell, ketika ia mendukung pemulihan Charles II. tahta Inggris (1612-1671).
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Dokter dibedakan, lahir di Co Durham; telah praktek yang ekstensif; penulis puisi mock berjudul "The Edinburgh" (1661-1718).
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Second largest of the five colonies of Australia, stretches N. and S. in a broad band, 1850 in. long, through the heart of the continent from the Southern Ocean to the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Arafura Sea, having Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria on the E., and Western Australia on the W.; ten times the size of Great Britain, but the greater portion comprises the Northern Territory, which consists, save a low alluvial coastal strip, of parched and uninhabited tableland. South Australia proper begins about 26° S. latitude, and is traversed southwards by the Finke River as far as Eyre Lake (3706 sq. m.), by the Flinders Range, and the lower Murray River in the E., and diversified here and there by low ranges and Lake Amadeus (NW.), Torrens and Gairdner (S.); the S. coast is penetrated by the great gulfs of Spencer and St. Vincent, round and to the N. and E. of which the bulk of the population is gathered in a region not much larger than Scotland; is the chief wheat-growing colony, and other important industries are mining (chiefly copper), sheep-rearing, and wine-making; chief exports, wool, wheat, and copper; the railway and telegraph systems are well developed, the Overland Telegraph Line (1973 m.) stretching across the continent from Adelaide to Port Darwin being a marvel of engineering enterprise. Adelaide is the capital. The governor is appointed by the crown, and there are a legislative council or upper house, and an assembly or lower house. State education is free. Began to be settled in 1836, and five years later became a Crown colony.
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