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81Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich — ▪ Russian author born Oct. 10 [Oct. 22, New Style], 1870, Voronezh, Russia died Nov. 8, 1953, Paris, France poet and novelist, the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933), and one of the finest of Russian stylists.… …
82religions, classification of — Introduction the attempt to systematize and bring order to a vast range of knowledge about religious beliefs, practices, and institutions. It has been the goal of students of religion for many centuries but especially so with the increased… …
83John E. Bruce: African American Plea for Organized Resistance to White Men (1889) — ▪ Primary Source When reactionary white supremacists regained political power in the South after Reconstruction, they imposed upon African Americans a regime of terror and disfranchisement calculated to override the legal provisions of the… …
84Abigail Adams: Two Letters — ▪ Primary Source Although Abigail Adams had little formal education, she was intelligent and broad minded and became a terse and vigorous letter writer. That she was concerned with the growth of the new republic can be seen in her numerous… …
85Duel — • This word, as used both in the ecclesiastical and civil criminal codes, generally signifies every contest with deadly weapons which takes place by agreement between two persons on account of some private quarrel Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
86Henry VIII — • Lengthy article which concentrates on Henry s break with the Church of Rome Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Henry VIII Henry VIII …
87Italian Literature — • The modern language of Italy is naturally derived from Latin, a continuation and development of the Latin actually spoken among the inhabitants of the peninsula after the downfall of the Roman Empire Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …
88Giovanni Boccaccio — Giovanni Boccaccio † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giovanni Boccaccio Italian novelist, b. in Paris, 1313; d. in Certaldo, 21 December, 1375. His father, a merchant from Certaldo and a man of some prominence in Florence, had gone into… …
89The Reformation — The Reformation † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Reformation The usual term for the religious movement which made its appearance in Western Europe in the sixteenth century, and which, while ostensibly aiming at an internal renewal of the …
90hylic — 1. adjective Having to do with or of the nature of matter or material. Syn: hyletic 2. noun In gnostic theologian Valentinus triadic grouping of man t …
