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11The Church in China — The Church in China † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church in China Ancient Christians The introduction of Christianity into China has been ascribed not only to the Apostle of India, St. Thomas, but also to St. Bartholomew. In the… …
12The Gunpowder Plot — The Gunpowder Plot † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Gunpowder Plot (Oath taken May, 1604, plot discovered November, 1605). Robert Catesby, the originator of the Powder Plot, owned estates at Lapworth and Ashby St. Legers. His ancient and …
13The Bread — (Das Brot) is a short story by Wolfgang Borchert. The story takes places in 1945 post war Germany where food was in short supply. Contents 1 Background 2 Plot 3 Interpretation 3.1 Motifs …
14The letter of the eight — was signed on 30 January, 2003, by the prime ministers for five of then fifteen members of the European Union in addition to three high representatives for the Central European countries that were to enter the union in 2004. It expressed indirect …
15The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk — is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the fourth of the twelve collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and third of eleven in most… …
16The Two Thousand Words — is a manifesto written by Czech reformist writer Ludvik Vaculik in the midst of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that began in January 1968 with the election of Alexander Dubcek and ended with a Soviet… …
17The Jester (novel) — The Jester is a novel by James Patterson (with Andrew Gross). Plot synopsis The Jester is a novel focussing on a young man named Hugh. He is living in a time of unrest, when nobles treat peasants such as him as dirt. The region is ruled over by a …
18pretext — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ flimsy ▪ Several schools banned the game on flimsy pretexts. ▪ false ▪ This was a false pretext to attack another country. VERB + PRETEXT ▪ …
19pretext — n. 1) to find a pretext for 2) a flimsy; mere pretext 3) a pretext to + inf. (it was a pretext to occupy more territory) 4) a pretext that + clause (she refused to attend on the pretext that she would be out of town) 5) at, on, under a pretext… …
20pretext — pre|text [ˈpri:tekst] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: praetextus, from praetexere to weave in front, make an excuse ] a false reason given for an action, in order to hide the real reason pretext for ▪ The incident provided the pretext for… …
