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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 ...
Ein Dorf 70 Meilen Westlich von Moskau; Schauplatz einer blutigen Schlacht zwischen Napoleon und den Russen am 7. September 1812.
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Vier Inseln im Lago Maggiore, von denen drei Gärten von Graf Borromeo 1671 waren, auf einer dessen sich einen Palast Borromeo befand, angereichert mit feinen Gemälden und anderen Kunstwerken.
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Die Aufständischen amerikanischen Kolonisten, die verkleidet als Indianer, am 16. Dez 1773 an Bord drei Englisch mit Tee beladene Schiffe gingen und mehrere hundert Kisten davon in Boston Hafen schleuderten, "machen diesen schwarz mit unerwarteten Tee".
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Eine Stadt in Leicestershire, wo Richard III Krone und Leben 1485 verlor, ein Ereignis, das die Rosenkriege beendete und zum Aufstieg der Tudor Dynastie auf den Thron von England in der Person Heinrichs VII führte.
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Eine Bucht in New South Wales, 5 Meilen suedlich von Sydney; 1770 entdeckt von Captain Cook; so getauft, von Sir Joseph Banks, wegen der Vielfalt und Schönheit der Flora; war einmal eine englische Sträflings-siedlung.
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Eine Provinz Schwedens, wird in Osten Westen durch einen Golf dieses Namens aufgeteilt.
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An interesting old town, partly in Lincolnshire and partly in Northamptonshire, on the Welland, 12 m. WNW. of Peterborough; was one of the five Danish burghs, and is described in Domesday Book; a massacre of Jews occurred here in 1140, and in Plantagenet times it was a place of ecclesiastical, parliamentary, and royal importance; figures in the Wars of the Roses and the Civil War of Charles I.'s time; has three fine Early English churches, a corn exchange, two handsome schools, Browne's Hospital, founded in Richard III.'s reign, and Burghley House, a noble specimen of Renaissance architecture; the Stamford Mercury (1695) is the earliest provincial newspaper; the district is mainly agricultural.
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Capital of the ancient Grecian State Boeotia, whose site on the slopes of Mount Teumessus, 44 m. NW. of Athens, is now occupied by the village of Thiva; its legendary history, embracing the names of Cadmus, Dionysus, Hercules, Oedipus, etc., and authentic struggles with Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War, its rise to supremacy under Epaminondas over all Greece, and its destruction by Alexander, have all combined to place it amongst the most famous cities of ancient Greece.
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Church historian of the 4th century, born at Byzantium; bred to the bar; his "Ecclesiastical History" embraces a period from 306 to 439, a work of no great merit.
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