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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 ...
Name given to Boston, U.S., from its founders and inhabitants who were originally of Puritan stock.
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Name given to irregularities or slight deviations in the movement of a heavenly body, due chiefly to the neighbourhood of another point in its orbit.
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Name given to magistrates of various classes in early English times, the most important of whom was the shire-reeve or sheriff, who represented the king in his shire; others were borough-reeves, port-reeves, etc.
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Name given to official formality, from the red-tape employed in tying official documents, whence "red-tapism."
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Name given to one who holds the doctrine that all space is filled with matter.
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Name given to sessions of justices of the peace to try small cases without a jury.
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Name given to the encouragement of certain home products of a country by imposing duties on foreign products of the class, opposed to free-trade.
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Name given to the governor of a Roman province who was absolute ruler of it, disposed of the army, dispensed justice, controlled administration, and was represented by legates.
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