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Culdees
(Encyclopedia)Culdees kəldēzˈ [key] [Irish,=servants of God], ancient monks of Ireland and Scotland, appearing after the 8th cent. Little is known of their origin, and their relationship to the monks of the Celt...Fromentin, Eugène
(Encyclopedia)Fromentin, Eugène özhĕnˈ frômäNtăNˈ [key], 1820–76, French painter and art critic. After studying in Paris, he traveled in Algeria and painted North African subjects. His Quarry and Fellah W...Frederiksted
(Encyclopedia)Frederiksted frĕˈdrĭkstĕd [key], town, historically the chief port and commercial center of ...Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
(Encyclopedia)Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852–1930, American author, b. Randolph, Mass. Her stories and novels paint a picture of Massachusetts and Vermont still under the influence of Puritanism, in her view...Anak
(Encyclopedia)Anak āˈnăk [key], according to a folk tradition in the Bible, an ancestor of the Anakim, a tribe of giants inhabiting Hebron and its vicinity at the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Arba i...Foster, Hannah Webster
(Encyclopedia)Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759–1840, American novelist, b. Boston. She was one of the earliest American novelists and her epistolary novel, The Coquette (1797), was one of the first of its kind in Ame...Amorites
(Encyclopedia)Amorites ămˈərīts [key], a people of Canaan. There is evidence of them in Babylonia, where in the 19th cent. b.c. they established under their patronage the first dynasty at Babylon. The most powe...Andreini, Isabella Canali
(Encyclopedia)Andreini, Isabella Canali ēˌzäbĕlˈlä ändrāēˈnē [key], 1562–1604, Italian actress. Beautiful, elegant, and well-educated, she was one of the most famous performers of her time. She joined ...Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo, Alexandre
(Encyclopedia)Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo, Alexandre əlēshäNˈdrə ərko͞oläˈno͝o ᵺĭ kərväˈlyo͝o ĕ ərouˈzho͝o [key], 1810–77, Portuguese historian. One of the outstanding thinkers of his tim...Hallelujah
(Encyclopedia)Hallelujah ăl– [key] [Heb.,=praise the Lord], joyful expression used in Hebrew worship; cf. Pss. 104–6, 111–13, 115–17, 135, 146–50. Christian liturgies make wide use of it, particularly at...Browse by Subject
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