Priargunsk
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Priargunsk, Chita/Russia Tsurukhaytuy ‘Near the Argun (River)’ after the river's name and
pri ‘near’ or ‘by’.
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1958: New Pope Is John XXIII
Newspaper article from: ; 10/28/2008; ; 286 words
; ...s Square and joy throughout Italy. The new Pope chose the name of John XXIII. He was the second to use it, for Baldassare Cossa, a Neapolitan who claimed to be Pope from 1410 to 1415, also used it. By going back to a name which, in Catholic...
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Typography Papers 6.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...inscriptions, including most of those that we think we already know in detail (such as the tomb of Martin V and Baldassare Cossa). Mosley's essay on Cresci is an extension of "Trajan Revived" (Alphabet 1964), the first--and still...
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Medici men in suits Even bankers could be Renaissance men, says Paul Strathern
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...diocese even paid in whalebones). The Medici first gained the papal account by financing the disreputable ex-pirate Baldassare Cossa, a gamble which paid off when he became Pope Giovanni XXIII. Transmitting large sums of money from northern Europe...
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De varietate fortunae.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...first half of the Quattrocento, which gave vent to Poggio's hatred and biting criticism of his betes noires, Baldassare Cossa (later Pope John XXIII), Eugenius IV, and most of all, the brutal soldier-cleric, Cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi...
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LETTERS: your views.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 5/8/2001; 700+ words
; ...the latter taking the title in order to somewhat mask the misdeeds of the former. The first John XXIII, known as Baldassare Cossa, before putting on the Fisherman's ring and sitting on St Peter's chair, made his crust in a rather unusual...
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Baldassare Cossa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Baldassare Cossa , c.1370-1419, Neapolitan churchman, antipope (1410-15; see...claimant, Alexander V. On Alexander's death a year later, Cardinal Cossa was elected. Of the three rival "popes," John had by far the greatest...
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Rossellino, Bernardo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...Republic, in S. Croce, Florence ( c. 1444–7). It is based on the monument of the antipope John XXIII ( Baldassare Cossa) by Donatello and Michelozzo in the Baptistery in Florence, and although less powerful is more graceful and harmonious...
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John XXIII
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
John XXIII (1370–1419) Antipope (1410–15), b. Baldassare Cossa. He convoked the Council of Constance (1414) to end the Great Schism . The Council called for his resignation along with the...
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Great Schism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Clementine) line were not popes and elected another, Alexander V. He died soon after, but his energetic successor, Baldassare Cossa (John XXIII, 1410-15), detached most of Europe from his rivals. In 1414 John reluctantly convened the Council...
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John Huss
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Pisa deposed both popes and chose Pietro Cardinal Philarghi as Alexander V, who was shortly succeeded by Baldassare Cardinal Cossa as John XXIII. With papal support, the archbishop forbade preaching in the Bethlehem Chapel, ordered the burning...
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