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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 ...
Augustine's name for the Church as distinct from the cities of the world, and the title of a book of his defining it.
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Medina, where Mahomet found refuge when driven out of Mecca by the Koreish and their adherents.
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Rome, as built on seven hills—viz., the Aventine, Coelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal.
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Baalbek; and a work by Campanella, describing an ideal republic, after the manner of Plato and Sir Thomas More.
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Royal city, a Spanish town in a province of the same name, 105 m. S. of Madrid, where Sebastian defeated the Spaniards in 1809.
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A Spanish town near the Portuguese frontier, 50 m. SW. of Salamanca; stormed by Wellington, after a siege of 11 days, in 1812, for which brilliant achievement he earned the title of Earl in England, and Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain.
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Or Siva, the third member of the Hindu Trinity, the destroyer of what Vishnu is the preserver and Brahma is the creator, is properly Brahma undoing what he has made with a view to reincarnation.
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A system of laws for the regulation of civilized communities formed on Roman laws, digested in the pandects of Justinian.
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