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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 ...
Eine mit Baeumen bedeckte Bergkette, 4000 Fuss hoch (so genannte, wegenden Schwarzkiefern, die ihn bedecken), die von der Schweizer Grenze bis Karlsruhe parallel mit dem Rhein im Osten, durch Wurtemberg und Baden, verläuft; ist bemerkenswert für seine malerische Landschaft und seinen Reichtum an Bodenschätzen; Es besitzt viele Kurorte, wie Baden-Baden und Wildbad, wo es Mineralquellen gibt; Silber, Kupfer, Kobalt, Blei und Eisen sind vielerorts zu finden; die Frauen und Kinder der Region stellen Artikel Holzarbeit, wie hölzerne Uhren usw. her.
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Buschof von Lüttich, wurde von den Abgesandten des Kaisers Henry 6. in 1195 umgebracht. Feiertag am 21. November
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(Pot-ketels), een populaire naam gegeven vóór de Reform Bill van 1832 tot een klasse van kiezers in een plaats (borough) die het kiesrecht op grond beweerde van het koken van een pot binnen haar grenzen voor zes maanden.
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(Woorden van de vaders), de naam gegeven aan een verzameling aforismen op de wijze van Jezus de zoon van Sirach door 60 artsen geleerd in de Joodse wet, representatief zijn voor hun onderwijs, en het geven van de kern van het; zij inprenten het belang van vertrouwdheid met de woorden van de wet.
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Writer of jurisprudence, born at Munich, of Jewish parents; embraced Christianity; wrote "The Philosophy of Law"; became professor thereof at Berlin; was a staunch Lutheran, and a Conservative in politics (1802-1861).
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The most noted of modern Swedish writers, born at Stockholm; accumulated stores of valuable experience during various early employments, which he utilised in his first successful work, "The Red Room" (1879), a satire on social life in Sweden, "The New Kingdom" (1882), equally bitter in its attack on social conventions, got him into trouble, and since then his life has been spent abroad; "Married Life," a collection of short stories, brought upon him a charge of "outraging Christianity," but after trial at Stockholm, in which he eloquently defended himself, he was acquitted; a prolific writer in all kinds of literature, and imbued with modern scientific and socialistic ideas, his writings lack the repose necessary to the highest literary achievement; born 1849.
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Surnamed The Magnificent, the tenth and greatest of the Ottoman sultans, the son and successor of Selim I.; succeeded his father at 24; set himself at once to reform abuses and place the internal administration on a strict basis, and after making peace with Persia and allaying tumult in Syria, turned his arms westwards, captured Belgrade, and wrested the island of Rhodes from the Knights of St. John; he twice over led his army into Hungary; in connection with the latter invasion laid siege to Vienna, from which he was obliged to retire after the loss of 40,000 men, after which he turned his arms to the east, adding to his territory, and finally to the North of Africa, to the conquest of the greater part of it; he died at Szigeth while opening a new campaign against Hungary; d. 1566.
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Historiker der frühen britischen Typografie, in einer Arbeit, die ihm viel Arbeit gekostet haben muss (1689-1759).
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