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1Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
2Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
3Jacques-Benigne Bossuet — Jacques Benigne Bossuet † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jacques Benigne Bossuet A celebrated French bishop and pulpit orator, born at Dijon, 27 September, 1627, died at Paris, 12 April, 1704. For more than a century his ancestors, both… …
4Asia — • Article intended to give a rapid survey of the geography, ethnography, political and religious history of Asia, and especially of the rise, progress, and actual condition of Asiatic Christianity and Catholicism Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
5Eschatology — Last Things redirects here. For the C. P. Snow novel, see Strangers and Brothers. Part of a series on Eschatology …
6Contest to kill 100 people using a sword — Nanking Massacrev · d · e Battle …
7The One Doctor — Big Finish Productions audio play The One Doctor Series Doctor Who …
8Duvergier de Hauranne — Duvergier de Hauranne † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Duvergier de Hauranne (Or DU VERGER), JEAN; also called SAINTCYRAN from an abbey he held in commendam). One of the authors of Jansenism, b. at Bayonne, France, 1581; d. in Paris,… …
9Dirty Ho — The Hong Kong movie poster. Directed by Lau Kar leung Produced by Mona Fong Run Run Shaw …
10EYBESCHUETZ, JONATHAN — (ben Nathan Nata; 1690/95–1764), talmudist and kabbalist. Eybeschuetz, a child prodigy, studied in Poland, Moravia, and Prague. In his youth, after the death of his father, he studied in Prossnitz under Meir Eisenstadt and Eliezer ha Levi… …
