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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 ...
The name given to the Puritans, some 100 in all, who sailed from Plymouth in the Mayflower in 1620 and settled in Massachusetts, carrying with them "the life-spark of the largest nation on our earth."
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The name given to the school of Zeno, so called from the Arcade in Athens, in which he taught his philosophy, a "many-colored portico," as decorated with the paintings of Polygnotus.
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The name given to the wars between Rome and Carthage for the empire of the world, of date, the first from 264 to 241, the second from 218 to 201, and the third from 149 to 146 B.C., due all to transgressions on the one side or the other of boundaries fixed by treaty, which it was impossible for either in their passion of empire to respect. It was a struggle which, though it ended in the overthrow of Carthage, proved at one time the most critical in the history of Rome.
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The name given to the writings of the early Fathers of the Christian Church.
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The name of a cup-shaped, gold-lined vessel, with lid, used in the Roman Catholic churches for containing the eucharistic elements after their consecration either for adoration in the churches or for conveying to sick-rooms. Pyx means "box." Hence Trial of the Pyx is the annual test of the British coinage, for which purpose one coin in every 15 lbs. of gold and one in every 60 lbs. of silver coined is set aside in a pyx or box. <hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>Q</h2>
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The name of a little chest in which the consecrated host is kept in the Roman Catholic Church. See Pyx.
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The name of a novel by Thackeray, from the name of the hero, and published in 1849-50 in succession to "Vanity Fair."
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The name of a process for desilverising lead, dependent on the fact that lead which has least silver in it solidifies first on liquefaction.
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The name of an illustrious family of science in Italy, of which Aeneas Silvius (Pope Pius II.) was a member; also Octavio I., Duke of Amalfi, who distinguished himself, along with Wallenstein, in the Thirty Years' War at Lutzen in 1632, at Nordlinger in 1634, and at Thionville in 1639; was one of the most celebrated soldiers that had command of the imperial troops (1599-1656).
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