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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 daughter of Oceanus or Nereus, the wife of Neptune, mother of Triton, and goddess of the sea.
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A descendant of the former, who became a leader of the Liberal Catholics in England, M.P. for Carlow, and made a peer in 1869; a man of wide learning, and the projector of a universal history by experts in different departments of the field; b. 1834.
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A devil who could he restrained from working evil from the third hour till noon and from the ninth till evening.
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A disciple of Aristotle in the time of Cicero, and to whom we owe the preservation of many of Aristotle's works.
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A disease, especially in cattle, due to the invasion of a living organism which, under certain conditions, breeds rapidly; called also splenic fever.
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A distinguished Arabian astronomer, born in Mesopotamia in the 9th or 10th century of our era; his observations extended over 50 years; he so improved the methods and instruments of observation as to earn the title of the Ptolemy of the Arabs.
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A distinguished architect, born at Kirkcaldy, architect of the Register House and the University, Edinburgh (1728-1792).
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A distinguished artist of Dutch descent, settled in London; famous for his highly-finished treatment of classic subjects; b. 1836.
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