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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 Marine-Offizier, geboren in Paris, an der Expedition von 1845 nach Madagaskar wurde er geruehmt, und einer derjenigen, die auf der Suche nach Sir John Franklin ging . Ertrank bei der Überquerung der Ice (1826-1853).
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Ein franzoesischer Materialist, Begründer der "physiologischen Schule" der Medizin; erklaerte Leben als Erregung und Krankheit als zu viel oder zu wenig davon (1772-1838).
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Ein Richter in Rabelais' "Gargantua und Pantagruel," der Fälle durch das Werfen von Würfeln entscheidet.
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Ein französischer Genre und Landschaftsmaler, geboren in Courrières, Pas-de-Calais, 1827.
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Schriftstellerin von Jagd und Falknerei;lebte im 14. Jahrhundert; es wird gesagt sie sei Priorin von einem Nonnenkloster gewesen.
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Deutscher Archäologe, war eine vielschreibender Schriftsteller ueber Antiquitäten, vor allem klassische (1760 – 1835).
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A lovely winding river in South Wales, which rises near the source of the Severn on Plinlimmon, and falls into its estuary at Chepstow, 125 m. from its head; rapid in its course at first, it becomes gentler as it gathers volume; barges ascend it as far as Hereford, but a high tidal wave makes navigation dangerous at its mouth.
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A sobriquet given to Heraclitus from a melancholy disposition ascribed to him, in contrast with Democritus, designated the laughing philosopher.
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A small episcopal city in Somersetshire, 20 m. SW. of Bath; it derives its name from hot springs near it, and is possessed of a beautiful cruciform cathedral in the Early English style, adorned with some 600 statues of saints, 151 of which are life-size, and some of them colossal.
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A body of Presbyterians in Scotland who dissent from the Established Church on chiefly ecclesiastical grounds, and had their origin in union in 1847 of the Secession Church of 1733 with the Relief Church of 1752, bodies previously in dissent as well. A further union of the United Presbyterian body with the Free Church is to all appearance about to be consummated.
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