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81Murder of Julia Martha Thomas — Kate Webster, the killer of Julia Martha Thomas. The murder of Julia Martha Thomas, dubbed the Barnes Mystery or the Richmond Murder by the press, was one of the most notorious crimes in late 19th century Britain. Thomas, a widow in her 50s who… …
82Ockham Park — is a Grade II listed English country house in Ockham, Surrey. Built ca 1638 for the Weston family, it was altered in 1727 9 to designs by Nicholas Hawksmoor[1] for Peter, Lord King. In the 1830s it was extended in Italianate style style for the… …
83John Peale Bishop — (* 21. Mai 1892 in Charles Town, West Virginia; † 4. April 1944) war ein US amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Dichter. Biografie Bishop gab sein literarisches Debüt 1917 mit der Gedichtsammlung Green Fruit. Er war nach dem Ende des Ersten… …
84BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …
85CANADIAN LITERATURE — English A.M. Klein (1909–1972), the founding father of Canadian Jewish literature, grew up in Montreal, the birthplace of that body of writing. A polyglot and autodidact, Klein absorbed his Hebrew and Yiddish heritages, as well as traditional… …
86ḤASIDISM — ḤASIDISM, a popular religious movement giving rise to a pattern of communal life and leadership as well as a particular social outlook which emerged in Judaism and Jewry in the second half of the 18th century. Ecstasy, mass enthusiasm, close knit …
87LITERATURE, JEWISH — Literature on Jewish themes and in languages regarded as Jewish has been written continuously for the past 3,000 years. What the term Jewish literature encompasses, however, demands definition, since Jews have lived in so many countries and have… …
