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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 barren rocky island in the Aegean Sea, S. of Samos, 28 m. in circuit, where St. John suffered exile, and where it is said he wrote the Apocalypse.
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A battlefield on the Yarrow, 3 m. W. of Selkirk, was the scene of Leslie's victory over Montrose in 1645.
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A beautifully situated, healthy watering-place, 14 m. NE. of Douglas, in the Isle of Man.
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A belief in a plurality of gods each with a sphere of his own, and each in general a personification of some elemental power concerned in the government of the world.
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A bird which was fabled at the end of certain cycles of time to immolate itself in flames, and rise renewed in youth from the ashes. It has become the appropriate symbol of the death-birth that ever introduces a new era in the history of the world, and is employed by Carlyle in "Sartor" as symbol of the crisis through which the present generation is now passing, the conflagration going on appearing nowise as a mere conflagration, but the necessary preliminary of a new time, with the germinating principles of which it is pregnant.
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A bird, the effigy of which was used in the Middle Ages to symbolise charity; generally represented as wounding its breast to feed its young with its own blood, and which became the image of the Christ who shed His blood for His people.
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A bishop's staff with a crooked head, symbolical of his authority and function as a shepherd in spiritual matters of the souls in his diocese.
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A block of red granite near Alexandria, forming a pillar 98 ft. 3 in. high; erected in honor of the Emperor Diocletian, who conquered Alexandria in 296. The name is an invention of some mistaken early traveller.
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A block with impressions produced by photography from which engravings, etc., can be printed.
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