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- #039;s France) and an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. ... he used his knowledge of Greek to create the first Latin treatises explaining ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 13:14, 22 January 2024
- The Star of David is a widely recognized symbol of Judaism, named ... While the symbol has had a varied emotional history for the Jewish ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- 29, 1963) was an American poet, arguably the most recognized American poet ... Masque of Mercy" (1947), based on the story of Jonah, presents a ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- is best known as a part of Catholic Mass, the Anglican Holy Communion service ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- minister, noted poet, and scholar of the Tang Dynasty, serving as chancellor ... gave truthful yet often bitter advise to the Emperor even at the risk of ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 05:57, 13 June 2023
- mystic whose writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced ... Böhme’s ideas about the process of Creation, the primacy of will ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- 88), who had been apprenticed as a youth to the Boston lithographic firm of ... Currier and Ives greatly increased the public demand for graphic images ...14 KB (2,141 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- and playwright. He has been called, “the conscience of his generation” ... to religious fundamentalism. During the “speakeasy” decade of ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- Charles Hodge (1797 - 1878) was a leader of the “Princeton School” ... Though a Presbyterian and a Calvinist, he refused to entertain the ...15 KB (2,292 words) - 19:10, 4 December 2023
- portraitists, by 1787 she had become one of the most famous and successful ... Austria. She was trained by her father, the Swiss muralist Johann Joseph ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- A kangaroo is any of several large marsupial mammals of the Macropodidae ... . Kangaroos are best known for their great leaping power due to the ...21 KB (3,232 words) - 07:08, 28 February 2023
- writer and television host, best known as the emcee of the popular and influential ... Between the years 1948 and 1971, nearly everyone who watched television ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... In its early history, one of the Church's earliest ecclesiological ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- in Madrid, Spain but his mother emigrated to the United States, where he was ... Santayana's main philosophical works are The Sense of Beauty ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024
- strengthen") was a major prophet in the Hebrew Bible during the period ... Ezekiel is remembered for various reasons. He is regarded as the author ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ... After the Nazi anti-semitic legislation forced her to resign from ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... able to pass on to those who followed him on the throne an empire that was ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- 29, 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ... After Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, the Nazis forced him to leave ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- The Hopi are a Native American nation, the westernmost group of Pueblo ... The Hopi have generally maintained their culture, which is based on ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
