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1The Adventure of the Illustrious Client — one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes . Plot summarySir James Damery comes to see Holmes and Watson about his …
2Khenpo Shenga — Rinpoche (or Shenpen Chökyi Nangwa; 1871 1927) was a prominent scholar in the Nyingma and Sakya traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. [cite web |url=http://www.berotsana.org/shengabio.html |title=The Life of Khenpo Shenga (1871 1927) |accessdate=2008… …
3Shōwa-Zeit — Die Shōwa Zeit (jap. 昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, dt. „Ära des erleuchteten Friedens“) ist die Bezeichnung für eine Epoche in der Geschichte Japans. Sie bezeichnet die Regierungszeit des Tennō Hirohito, des dritten Kaisers der modernen Periode, vom 25.… …
4Antoine Touron — Antoine Touron † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Antoine Touron Dominican biographer and historian, born at Graulhet, Tarn, France, on 5 September, 1686; died at Paris, 2 September, 1775. Of this author but little has been written, though the …
5performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
6literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
7tennis — /ten is/, n. a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half. Cf. lawn tennis. See illus. under racket2.… …
8Gospel of the Hebrews — Part of a series on Jewish Christianity …
9Gospel of Thomas — For a similarly titled work, see Infancy Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel According to Thomas, commonly shortened to the Gospel of Thomas, is a well preserved early Christian, non canonical sayings gospel discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in… …
10Thomas M'Crie the Elder — For his eldest son, of the same name, see Thomas M Crie the Younger.Thomas M Crie (November, 1772 August 5, 1835) was a Scottish historian, writer, and preacher born in the town of Dunse, Berwickshire in November 1772. He was the eldest of a… …
