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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 ...
A French writer, born at Nimes, author of a work entitled "The Primitive World analysed and compared with the Modern World" (1725-1784).
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A court established by Edward III., which took cognisance of questions of honor and heraldry, as well as military offences.
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A disparaging designation of our German kindred, as slow, heavy, unpolished, and ungainly.
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A French general, commanded the Chinese expedition of 1860, and, after a victory over the Chinese, took possession of Pekin (1796-1878).
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The name of three eminent French sculptors: Nicolas (1658-1733); Guillaume, father (1678-1746); and Guillaume, son (1716-1777).
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A custom among certain races of low culture in which a father before and after childbirth takes upon himself the duties and cares of the mother.
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A body of strict Presbyterians who held out against the breach of the Solemn League and Covenant.
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Properly Convent Garden, as originally the garden of Westminster Abbey, the great fruit, flower, and vegetable market of London; is one of the sights of London early on a summer morning.
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A town in Warwickshire, 18½ m. SE. of Birmingham; famous for the manufacture of ribbons and watches, and recently the chief seat of the manufacture of bicycles and tricycles; in the old streets are some quaint old houses; there are some very fine churches and a number of charitable institutions.
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