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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 ...
Patriarch of Alexandria from 311 to 326, contributed to bring about the condemnation of Arius at the Council of Nice; festival, Feb 26.
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Pedestals placed at the middle and the extremities of a pediment to support a statue or other ornament, or the statue or ornament itself.
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Persons or animals with preternaturally pale skin and fair hair, also with pupils of a red or pink colour, and eyes too weak to bear full light.
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Physician of Francis I., born at Châlons-sur-Marne, his real name being Sans-Malice; d. 1551.
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Primeval man as he at first emanated from the Creator, or man in his primeval rudimentary potentiality.
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Pure or highly rectified spirit obtained from fermented saccharine solutions by distillation, and the intoxicating principle of all spirituous liquors.
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