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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 ...
Prince of Transylvania, assumed the title of king of Hungary; assisted Bohemia in the Thirty Years' war (1580-1629).
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An eastern suburb of London, a parliamentary borough, a poor district, and scene of benevolent enterprises.
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A French statesman and archaeologist; superintended excavations on the Acropolis of Athens; held office under Macmahon (1826-1874).
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A manufacturing town in Prussian Silesia, in the centre of a mining district.
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A Yorkshire manufacturing town, 8 m. NW. of Hull, with a Gothic minster, which contains the tombs of the Percys.
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Or Hampton, Sir, a famous knight of English mediaeval romance, a man of gigantic stature, whose marvellous feats are recorded in Drayton's "Polyolbion."
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A port in the Madras presidency, a railway terminus, with coal and iron in the neighbourhood.
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The most nourishing commercial city on the coast of Syria, and the port of Damascus, from which it is distant 55 m.; a very ancient place.
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Byzantine gold coins of varying weight and value, introduced by the Crusaders into England, where they were current till the time of Edward III.
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