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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 Wanderndes wildes Volk in den Wäldern von Brasilien, nahe der Küste; eine sehr niedrige Art von Menschen und bei einer sehr niedrigen Stufe der Zivilisation; Dämonen-Verehrer sind sie, und man sagt sie besitzen keine Zahlen jenseits der Eins.
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Eine Art von Ficus, heilig fuer die Buddhisten als der Baum, unter dem Buddha saß, als das Licht des Lebens ihm zuerst dämmerte. Siehe Buddha.
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Ein Alchemist, der bei seinen Experimenten auf Porzellan, das berühmte Meißen-Porzellan erfand (1682-1719).
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Eastern division of the Austrian Empire; is a tableland enclosed NE. and South by the Carpathians, contains wide tracts of forests, and is one-half under tillage or in pasture; yields large crops of grain and a variety of fruits, and has mines of gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., though the manufactures and trade are insignificant; the population consists of Roumanians, Hungarians, and Germans; it was united to Hungary in 1868.
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Egyptologist, born In Westmorland; studied at Oxford; explored the antiquities of Egypt, and wrote largely on the subject (1797-1875).
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Eldest son of the Earl of Salisbury, the king-maker; fought in the "Wars of the Roses," and was in the end defeated by Edward IV. and slain (1428-1471).
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Eminent Danish archaeologist, born in Jutland; has written on the antiquities of the North, specially in a Scandinavian reference (1821-1885).
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Eminent English painter, born in London; is distinguished as a painter at once of historical subjects, ideal subjects, and portraits; did one of the frescoes in the Poets' Hall of the Houses of Parliament and the cartoon of "Caractacus led in Triumph through the Streets of Rome"; has, as a "poet-painter," by his "Love and Death," "Hope," and "Orpheus and Eurydice," achieved a world-wide fame; he was twice over offered a baronetcy, but on both occasions he declined; born 1817.
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Eminent German littérateur, born near Biberach, a small village in Swabia, son of a pastor of the pietist school; studied at Tubingen; became professor of Philosophy at Erfurt, and settled in Weimar in 1772 as tutor to the two sons of the Duchess Amalia, where he by-and-by formed a friendship with Goethe and the other members of the literary coterie who afterwards settled there; he wrote in an easy and graceful style, and his best work is a heroic poem entitled "Oberon" (1733-1813).
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