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111Gregory Thaumaturgus — Infobox Saint name= Saint Gregory of Neocaesarea birth date= 213 AD death date= 270 AD feast day= 17 November venerated in= Roman Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox imagesize= 250px caption= Saint Gregory the Wonderworker 14th century icon birth… …
112Thomas Jefferson: An American Education for American Youth — ▪ Primary Source In the years following the Revolution, many Americans were willing to assert cultural as well as political independence from the Old World. Their notion was that since America was separated by 3,000 miles from Europe and… …
113St. Gregory of Neocaesarea — St. Gregory of Neocaesarea † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Gregory of Neocaesarea Known at THAUMATURGUS, (ho Thaumatourgos, the miracle worker). Born at Neocaesarea in Pontus (Asia Minor) about 213; died there 270 275. Among those… …
114Prix Locus du meilleur roman court — Les prix Locus sont décernés chaque année, depuis 1971, par les lecteurs du magazine américain mensuel de science fiction Locus lors de la Westercons qui se déroule le quatrième week end de juillet. La catégorie du meilleur roman court (novella)… …
115Söderberg, Hjalmar — (1869 1941) A Swedish short story writer, novelist, playwright, and polemicist, Söderberg is both a superb prose stylist and an example of the aesthetic concerns of fin de siecle Swedish literature. His literary debut came with the novel… …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
116ESTHER RABBAH — (Heb. אֶסְתֵּר רַבָּה), Midrash Aggadah on the scroll of Esther. In the editio princeps (Constantinople, 1517?) the work is referred to as midrash ahasuerus while in the second edition (Pesaro, 1519) it is called Midrash Megillat Esther and the… …
117Black Hole of Calcutta — The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon in Fort William where troops of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud Daulah, held British prisoners of war after the capture of Fort William on June 20, 1756. John Zephaniah Holwell claimed that following… …
118Hermann Samuel Reimarus — (December 22, 1694, Hamburg March 1, 1768, Hamburg), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and… …
119John Wallis — Infobox Scientist name = John Wallis box width = 300px |300px image width = 300px caption = birth date = birth date|1616|11|23 birth place = Ashford, Kent, England death date = death date and age|1703|10|28|1616|11|23 death place = Oxford,… …
120Gadsden flag — The Gadsden flag is an historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Positioned below the snake is the legend DONT TREAD ON ME. [ sic ] The flag was designed by and is named after American… …
