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Barbara, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Barbara, Saint, fl. 3d or 4th cent., virgin martyr, whose life is shrouded in contradictory legends. Her father is said to have shut her up in a tower and then to have killed her for…

Ute

(Encyclopedia) UteUtey&oomacr;t, y&oomacr;ˈtē [key], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see…

The American's Creed

William Tyler Page “I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a…

Heavy

Columbia TriStar; rental pricingFeature; NRDirector: James MangoldCast: Liv Tyler, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters and Evan Dando Mangold's debut chronicles the small-town inertia of a…

Back When We Were Grownups

Author:Anne TylerPublisher:Knopf Rebecca Davitch at 53 wonders if she's become the “wrong person.” Widowed in her 20s, Rebecca found herself financially and emotionally accountable for her…

1970–1971 Emmy Awards

Outstanding Series, DramaThe Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC)Outstanding Continued Performance By an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic SeriesHal Holbrook, The Bold Ones: The…

Corinthians

(Encyclopedia) CorinthiansCorinthianskərĭnˈthēənz [key], two letters of the New Testament. They were written to the church at Corinth by Paul whose stay in Corinth is recorded in the Acts of the…

Jacobite Church

(Encyclopedia) Jacobite ChurchJacobite Churchjăkˈəbītˌ [key], officially Syrian Orthodox Church, Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as…

Asturias

(Encyclopedia) Asturias Asturias äst&oomacr;ˈryäs [key], autonomous community and coextensive prov., 4,093 sq mi (10,602 sq km), and former kingdom, NW Spain, S of the…

week

(Encyclopedia) week, period of time shorter than the month, commonly seven days. The ancient Egyptians used a 10-day period, as did the French under the short-lived French Revolutionary calendar. In…