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The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto XXXII

Paradiso: Canto XXXIParadiso: Canto XXXIIIParadiso: Canto XXXII Absorbed in his delight, that contemplator Assumed the willing office of a teacher, And gave beginning to these holy…

January 2007

Here are the key news events of the month organized into three categories: World News, U.S. News, and Business, Society, and Science News. World Former Communist Countries Admitted…

Huss, John

(Encyclopedia) Huss, JohnHuss, Johnhŭs [key], Czech Jan HusHuss, Johnyän h&oobreve;s [key], 1369?–1415, Czech religious reformer. At the invitation of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, who granted…

Ostrogoths

(Encyclopedia) Ostrogoths (East Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of the Germans. According to their own unproved tradition, the ancestors of the Goths were the Gotar of…

Murray, Anna Pauline "Pauli"

(Encyclopedia) Murray, Pauli, 1910–1985, American lawyer, priest, and activist, b. Baltimore, S.J.D. Yale University, 1965, MDiv, General Theological…

The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto XXIV

Paradiso: Canto XXIIIParadiso: Canto XXVParadiso: Canto XXIV "O company elect to the great supper Of the Lamb benedight, who feedeth you So that for ever full is your desire, If by…

Brewer's: Hand

A measure of length = four inches. Horses are measured up the fore leg to the shoulder, and are called 14, 15, 16 (as it may be), hands high. i. Hand (A). A symbol of fortitude in Egypt,…

papacy

(Encyclopedia) CE5 papacypapacypāˈpəsē [key], office of the pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church. He is pope by reason of being bishop of Rome and thus, according to Roman Catholic belief,…

The Valley of the Shadow

The Valley of the ShadowWhen the first bitterness was over, the family accepted the inevitable, and tried to bear it cheerfully, helping one another by the increased affection which comes to…