Search results for "The Promise (Passion Play)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- A Passion play is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of ... The plays, which became increasingly elaborate and sometimes featured ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his work ... Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Benjamin Max (d. 1958 ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- and forceful singing, his powerful use of the 12-string guitar, and the ... Lead Belly was one of the most colorful, albeit notorious figures ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- writer and poet, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus." ... Lermontov was born in Moscow to a respectable family of the Tula province ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (c. 480 – 406 B.C.E.) was ... and Sophocles primarily concerned with the role of the fates and the ...22 KB (3,638 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- philosopher, and physician, renowned in the twentieth century as a humanitarian ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- Heloise (1101 - 1162), the famous lover of Peter Abelard (Abélard ... Heloise was the ward of an uncle, a canon A clergyman serving in a ...20 KB (3,412 words) - 17:12, 6 February 2022
- Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a ... Cobb also received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural ...28 KB (4,394 words) - 20:36, 4 January 2024
- "star-cross'd lovers" and the role played by their tragic ... romances stretching back at least as far as the Ancient Greeks, it is based ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the ... In mythology, Prometheus is the entity who stole fire from the gods ...36 KB (5,384 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was one of the most influential and widely ... well as fellow film directors, to be one of the finest film directors of all ...35 KB (5,656 words) - 01:57, 26 March 2024
- The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- | order=40th President of the United States | date1=January 20, 1981 ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- The Decadent movement (Fr. décadence, “decay”) was a late-nineteenth ... The Decadent movement first flourished in France and then spread throughout ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- 1593 and 1610. He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, of which he ... rebellious, and dangerous. He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600, and ...56 KB (8,917 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- Nero Germanicus before his accession) was the fourth Roman Emperor of the ... 37. This infirmity may have saved him from the fate of many other Roman nobles ...58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
