Only show
results for:

Topics related to "Anthony R. Barone; Mary Borg; Alfredo Gonzalez; Mary Isabella Livington Hora."

Kutna Hora Kutna Hora
Kutná Hora , Ger. Kuttenberg, city (1991 pop. 24,561), central Czech Republic, in Bohemia. Now an agricultural center, it was an important silver-mining center in the Middle Ages. A national monument, it is a tourist draw and a market for the surrounding farm products. Its famous mint... Read more
Manuel Gonzalez Prada Manuel Gonzalez Prada
Manuel González Prada , 1848-1918, Peruvian writer and political reformer, b. Lima. One of the most brilliant figures in Spanish American letters, he was a master of satire and invective. With apostolic zeal he took up the defense of the exploited indigenous people, and in his eloquent... Read more
Themis Themis
Themis , in Greek religion and mythology, a Titan. Sometimes identified as an earth goddess, she was more commonly a goddess of law, order, and justice. She was the mother by Zeus of the Horae (the Seasons) and the Moerae (the Fates). It was also said that she was the mother of Prometheus by... Read more
Bernard of Cluny Bernard of Cluny
Bernard of Cluny or Bernard of Morlaix , fl. 1150, French Cluniac monk, of English parentage. He wrote De contemptu mundi [on contempt for the world], a poem in 3,000 hexameters. On it Horatio Parker based his oratorio Hora novissima, and from it John Mason Neale drew the words of Jerusalem... Read more
John Brown John Brown
John Brown 1810-82, Scottish essayist. He was a physician. His writing was collected in Horae Subsecivae (3 vol., 1858-82), which included his unique picture of a dog, Rab and His Friends (1859), and a memoir of that gifted child known to Walter Scott's circle as "Pet Marjorie," Marjorie... Read more
William Paley William Paley
William Paley 1743-1805, English theologian. Ordained in 1767, he lectured on moral philosophy at Christ's College, Cambridge. Made a prebendary of the cathedral church of Carlisle (1780), he became archdeacon of the diocese (1782), and chancellor (1785), the year he published Principles of Moral... Read more
Hussite Wars 1419-1436 Hussite Wars 1419-1436
Hussite Wars series of conflicts in the 15th cent., caused by the rise of the Hussites in Bohemia and Moravia. It was a religious struggle between Hussites and the Roman Catholic Church, a national struggle between Czechs and Germans, and a social struggle between the landed and peasant classes.... Read more
Memento Mori Memento Mori
M EMENTOM ORI The Latin term memento morihas long served as a reminder of mortality. Literally meaning, "Remember you will die," the term has traditionally been linked with striking images and stories of dying. Exceptionally clear examples of this... Read more
Vedic Vedic
Vedic Astrology Astrologers in India trace their art to the fifth millennium B.C.E. though a new shape was given to ancient astrological speculations by Parashara Muni around 1500 B.C.E. He is one of the first astrologers in the world known to have actually cast horoscopes, the personal birth... Read more
Charles University Charles University
Charles University at Prague, Czech Republic; also called Univ. of Prague. The oldest and one of the most important universities of central Europe, it was founded in 1348 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, for whom it is named. The faculty was organized in four so-called nations, the Czech, Saxon,... Read more

Sorry, no results were found on Encyclopedia.com

No reference documents or articles match the search term Anthony R. Barone; Mary Borg; Alfredo Gonzalez; Mary Isabella Livington Hora.


Suggestions:

  • Check the spelling of your search term
  • Try using fewer keywords
  • Try using more general keywords