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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 ...
A town on the W. coast of Corea; a thriving town since it became a treaty-port in 1883.
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An affluent on the left bank of the Indus, and one of the five rivers, and the largest, which give name to the Punjab; is 750 m. long.
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A magnificent chateau near Amboise, in, France; built by Francis I. for the Duchesse d'Etampes, afterwards the property of the Condés, and afterwards of Madame Dupont.
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A French naturalist; author of an "Encyclopaedia of Natural History" (1808-1879).
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King of Egypt, brother and successor of Cheops; built the second great pyramid.
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King of Memphis, in Egypt, of the 4th dynasty; builder of the largest of the pyramids about 3000 B.C.
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A port on the Wye, Monmouthshire, 17 m. N. of Newport; with a tubular suspension bridge, and where the tides are higher than anywhere else in Britain.
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An affluent of the Loire below Tours; also the dep. in France to which it gives name; an agricultural and pastoral district; capital Bourges.
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A French port and arsenal in the dep. of Manche, opposite the Isle of Wight, 70 m. distant, on the construction and fortifications of which immense sums were expended, as much as eight millions; the fortifications were begun by Vauban.
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