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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 document drawn up by Melanchthon in name of the Lutheran reformers, headed by the Elector of Saxony in statement of their own doctrines, and of the doctrines of the Church of Rome, against which they protested.
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A college of priests in Rome appointed to forecast the future by the behaviour or flight of birds kept for the purpose, and which were sometimes carried about in a coop to consult on emergencies.
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Originally called Sextilis, as the sixth month of the Roman year, which began in March, and named August in honor of Augustus, as being the month identified with remarkable events in his career.
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A prosperous town in Georgia, U.S., on the Savannah, 231 m. from its mouth; also a town the capital of Maine, U.S.
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The time in the history of a nation when its literature is at its best.
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A poet and politician, born at Marseilles; author of "Nemesis," and the best French translation of the "Aeneid," in verse; an enemy of the Bourbons, an ardent Imperialist, and warm supporter of Louis Napoleon (1796-1867).
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Or Austin, St., the apostle of England, sent thither with a few monks by Pope Gregory in 596 to convert the country to Christianity; began his labors in Kent; founded the see, or rather archbishopric, of Canterbury; d. 605.
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Canons, called also Black Cenobites, under a less severe discipline than monks, had 200 houses in England and Wales at the Reformation; (b) Friars, mendicant, a portion of them barefooted; (c) Nuns, nurses of the sick.
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