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51HERZL, THEODOR — (Binyamin Ze ev; 1860–1904), founder of political Zionism and the World Zionist Organization. Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, to an affluent family and educated in the spirit of German Jewish enlightenment. In 1878 he entered the law faculty …
52BEN-YEHUDA, ELIEZER — (1858–1922), Hebrew writer and lexicographer, generally considered the father of modern Hebrew, and one of the first active Zionist leaders. Born Eliezer Yiẓḥak Perelman in Luzhky, Lithuania, he officially adopted the pseudonym Ben Yehuda, which… …
53Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Rimsky Korsakov redirects here. For other uses, see Rimsky Korsakov (disambiguation). Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov in 1898 by Valentin Serov (detail) Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский Корсаков, Nikolaj …
54South Africa under apartheid — Apartheid (meaning separateness in Afrikaans, cognate to English apart and ) was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government of South Africa between 1948 and 1990. Apartheid had its roots in the history of… …
55Michelle Bachelet — This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Bachelet and the second or maternal family name is Jeria. Michelle Bachelet …
56Claude Auchinleck — Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Nickname The Auk …
57Robert Borden — Not to be confused with his cousin Frederick Borden, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence from 1896 to 1911. Infobox Prime Minister honorific prefix=The Right Honourable name=Sir Robert Laird Borden honorific suffix= PC, GCMG, KC order =8th… …
58BIBLE — 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 …
59Roman Catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church. [1815 25] * * * Largest single Christian denomination in the world, with some one billion members, or about 18% of the world s population. The Roman Catholic church has… …
60UNITED STATES LITERATURE — The Influence of the Bible and Hebrew Culture The Jewish influence on American literary expression predated the actual arrival of Jews in the United States in 1654, for the Puritan culture of New England was marked from the outset by a deep… …
