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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 ...
Ένας άλλος Ιρλανδός ιερέας, που γεννήθηκε στο Cork, που πήρε στη δημοσιογραφία, και είναι γνωστό από το nom de λοφίο του πατέρα Prout? συνέβαλε στην Fraser του περιοδικού, και ήταν Ξένος ανταποκριτής για την επικαιρότητα και τον κόσμο. ήταν διάσημη για την κομψή μεταφράσεις (1804-1866).
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A fortress city, the capital of Malta, on a promontory on the NE. coast of the island, between two bays; the streets are steep, and the harbour is strongly fortified; it contains several fine buildings, a cathedral, the palace of the Grand-Masters of the Knights Templar, and the hospital of St. John; there is also a university and a large public library.
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Ein gefeierter italienischer Physiker; widmete sich Wissenschaft und erregte die Aufmerksamkeit von Galileo, dem er später sein als Professor an der Florentiner Akademie Nachfolger; entdeckt das wissenschaftliche Prinzip des Barometers, die manchmal genannt Torricellian Röhre, und bemerkenswerte Fortschritte in der Mathematik und Physik (1608-1647) gemacht.
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An island in co. Kerry, Ireland, is the European terminus of the Atlantic telegraph system.
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Eine Mohammedan Sekte entstand unter der Nedj-Stamm in zentralen Arabien, dessen Ziele puritanic waren und die Wiederherstellung des Islamismus zu seiner primitiven Einfachheit im Glaubensbekenntnis, Anbetung und Verhalten; im Glaubensbekenntnis waren sie erheblich die Sunniten identisch.
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An important town in Denbighshire, North Wales, 12 m. SW. from Chester, in the centre of a mining district, and famed for its breweries.
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A college 2 m. E. of Poughkeepsie, New York, founded by Matthew Vassar, a wealthy brewer, in 1861 for the higher education of women.
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Critic, born at St. Ives, bosom friend of Swinburne, who pronounces him "the first critic of our time—perhaps the largest-minded and surest-sighted of any age"; his influence is great, and it has been exercised chiefly through contributions to the periodicals of the day; has assumed the surname of Dunton after his mother; born 1836.
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A body in Turkey, or any Mohammedan country, of the learned in the Mohammedan religion and law, such as the Imams, or religious teachers, the Muftis, or expounders of the law and the Cadis, or judges; its decrees are called "fetvas."
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A village 2 m. N. of Freiburg, in Baden, with a castle now in ruins which gives name to the reigning grand-ducal family of Baden, the founders of which were counts of Breisgau.
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