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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 well-built town of Rhenish Prussia, on the right bank of the Rhine; it is a place of manufactures, and has a fine picture-gallery with a famous school of art associated.
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A French physiologist and physicist, known for his researches on the passage of fluids through membranous tissues (1776-1847).
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The name of two Roman magistrates who exercised the same public functions.
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A Russian river, distinguished from the Duna, also called Duna, and an important, which flows N. to the White Sea.
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The native name of tribes of Malays of a superior class aboriginal to Borneo.
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The unit of work, or the force required to raise one pound one foot in one second.
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A powerful explosive substance, intensely local in its action; formed by impregnating a porous siliceous earth or other substance with some 70 per cent. of nitro-glycerine.
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A machine by which mechanical work is transformed into powerful electric currents by the inductive action of magnets on coils of copper wire in motion. <hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>E</h2>
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A celebrated monk of Canterbury; flourished in the 12th century; friend and biographer of St. Anselm, author of a History of His Own Times, as also of many of the Lives of the Saints; elected to the bishopric of St. Andrews in 1120; resigned on account of Alexander I. refusing to admit the right of the English Archbishop of Canterbury to perform the ceremony of consecration.
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A Saxon, notorious for his treachery, fighting now with his countrymen against the Danes and now with the Danes against them, till put to death by order of Canute in 1017.
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