devious speculations

  • 1SHABBETAI ẒEVI — (1626–1676), the central figure of Shabbateanism, the messianic movement named after him. Background of the Movement Shabbateanism was the largest and most momentous messianic movement in Jewish history subsequent to the destruction of the Temple …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 2Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig — Douglas Haig redirects here. See also Douglas Haig (disambiguation). The Earl Haig Earl Haig Nickname …

    Wikipedia

  • 3Son Excellence Eugène Rougon — infobox Book | name = Son Excellence Eugène Rougon title orig = translator = image caption = author = Émile Zola illustrator = cover artist = country = France language = French series = Les Rougon Macquart genre = Novel publisher = Charpentier… …

    Wikipedia

  • 4Georges Bonnet — Infobox Person name = Georges Étienne Bonnet birth date = Birth date|1889|07|22 death date = Death date and age|1973|6|18|1889|07|22 alma mater= Sorbonne, party = Radical Socialist Party religion = Roman Catholic spouse = Odette Pelletan children …

    Wikipedia

  • 5France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

    Universalium

  • 6Internet — /in teuhr net /, n. a large computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually prec. by the). [1990 95] * * * Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S.… …

    Universalium