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31History of Eastern Christianity in Asia — Judging from the New Testament account of the rise and expansion of the early church, during the first few centuries of Christianity, the most extensive dissemination of the gospel was not in the West but in the East. In fact, conditions in the… …
32Walker Army Airfield (Kansas) — Walker Army Airfield (also known as Victoria Pratt Airfield or Walker Hayes Airfield) is an abandoned airfield located north of Interstate 70 in Ellis County, 4 miles northeast of Victoria, Kansas. History Origns During World War II, the facility …
33Battle of Hat Dich — Part of the Vietnam War …
34PARODY, HEBREW — Parody in Early Hebrew Literature Parody is the use of a recognizable literary form as a vehicle to ridicule or mock something or someone. The writer takes a well known, serious work as his model and invests it with new and amusing contents, at… …
35USS George Mangham (1854) — was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Commissioned at Philadelphia in 1862 George Mangham was a wooden… …
36Amoskeag Manufacturing Company — The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire. From modest beginnings in near wilderness, it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. At its peak …
37CULTURAL LIFE — Introduction The movement for the return to Zion which emerged as a force at the end of the 19th century was based on a variety of motivations, including the political – the demand for an independent homeland where the Jews could forge their own… …
38Arts in Seattle — Seattle, although a relatively new city, is a significant center for the performing arts. The century old Seattle Symphony Orchestra is among the world s most recorded orchestras. [http://www.seattlesymphony.org/symphony/meet/recordings/… …
39European exploration — Introduction the exploration of regions of the Earth for scientific, commercial, religious, military, and other purposes by Europeans beginning in the 15th century. The motives that spur human beings to examine their environment are… …
40WORLD JEWISH ASSOCIATIONS — This article is confined to organizations that encompass Jews and Jewish activities cutting across the borders of various countries. Associations of this nature have existed for more than a century. Among the histories of dispersed communities of …
