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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 largest town in Sokoto, in the Lower Soudan, with a large trade in cotton, tobacco, and indigo.
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The last of the line of the Stuart royal family, who died in 1807, 19 years after his brother Charles Edward.
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The Lesser Bear, an inconspicuous constellation, the pole-star forming the tip of the tail.
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The most learned of the Romans, wrote a number of works both in prose and verse, of which only fragments remain, but enough to prove the greatness of the loss; was the friend of Pompey, then Caesar, then Cicero, but survived the strife of the time and spent his leisure afterwards in literary labors (116-27 B.C.).
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The most remarkable gorge in the world, in the centre of California, 140 m. E. of San Francisco, 6 m. long and from ½ to 24 m. broad, girt by perpendicular walls thousands of feet deep and traversed by the river Merced in a succession of falls of great height, the whole presenting a scene of mingled grandeur and beauty; it was discovered in 1851, and steps are being taken by Congress to preserve it as a place of public resort and recreation.
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The most southerly county in Scotland, in the SW. of which the largest town is Stranraer, and the county town Wigtown; it is an agricultural county, and largely pastoral.
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The muse of astronomy, is represented with a globe in her hand, to which she points with a small rod.
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The mythical author of the Hindu Mahabharata and the Puránas; was the illegitimate child of a Brahman and a girl of impure caste of the fisher class. <hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>W</h2>
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The name applied in the New Testament to the collective body of those who reject and oppose the spirit of Christ, who practically affirm what He denies, and practically deny what He affirms, or turn His Yea into Nay, and His Nay into Yea.
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The name assumed by the editor of Fraser's Magazine when it first started.
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