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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 bridge in the Norse mythology stretching from heaven to earth, of firm solidity and exquisite workmanship, represented in the rainbow, of which the colours are the reflections of the precious stones.
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A name given to the Catholics, as Little-endians is the name given to the Protestants, in the imaginary kingdom of Lilliput, of which the former are regarded as heretics by the latter because they break their eggs at the big end.
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A town in Lanarkshire, birthplace of Dr. John Brown and of the Gladstone ancestry.
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A large bay in the Gulf of Guinea, in W. Africa; includes several islands, and receives into it the waters of the Calabar rivers.
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Imaginary author of poems in the Yankee dialect, written by James Russell Lowell.
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City in the presidency of Bombay, once the capital of an extensive kingdom, now deserted, but with remains of its former greatness.
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Capital of the Basque prov. of Biscay, in Spain; a commercial city of ancient date, famous at one time for its steel, specially in Queen Elizabeth's time, when a rapier was called a "bilbo."
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A fluid secreted from the blood by the liver to aid in digestion, the secretion of which is most active after food.
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A fish-market in London, below London Bridge; also a name given to low, coarse language indulged in there.
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