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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spanish Language and Literature
His interest in the literature of the people is avouched also by a collection of their rhymed proverbs which he made.
Vices of style were, however, to become all too prominent and general in Spanish literature of the seventeenth century and to pervade verse and prose alike.
The literature of Spain has been greatly enriched by the modern Renaissance of the Catalan literature.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14192a.htm   (9202 words)

  
 University of Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cambridge is a member of the Russell Group, a network of large, research-led British universities; the Coimbra Group, an association of leading European universities; the LERU (League of European Research Universities), and the IARU (International Alliance of Research Universities).
The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, which taught the world’s first computing course in 1953, is housed in a building partly funded by Gates and named after his grandfather, William Gates.
After the founding of Harvard College in 1636 at Newtowne, Massachusetts, the town adopted the new name of “Cambridge” in 1638 to promote its reputation as an academic centre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Cambridge   (4236 words)

  
 Alchemy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Dee's associate Edward Kelley — who claimed to converse with angels through a crystal ball and to own a powder that would turn mercury into gold — may have been the source of the popular image of the alchemist-charlatan.
Among Other alchemists of this time, worthy of note is Micha&322; S&281;dziwój (''Michael Sendivogius'') (1566 - 1636), a Polish alchemist, philosopher and medical doctor, pioneer of chemistry.
He assumed that air contains oxygen, 170 years before Scheele and Priestley, by warming nitre (saltpetre).
alchemy.iqnaut.net   (5362 words)

  
 Jacket magazine List of Small or Literary Presses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
It is divided into two companies: Enitharmon Press, which publishes poetry and general literature in small-format volumes and anthologies, and Enitharmon Editions Ltd, which produces de luxe artists’ books in the tradition of the livre d’artiste.
These limited editions are usually letterpress printed, and contain original artwork in the form of etchings, lithographs, photogravures or photographs, and in one case with paintings on canvas.
Light Literature — such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.
www.jacketmagazine.com /smallpress.html   (2642 words)

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