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Pope Eusebius
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Pope Joan
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Pope Gregory I
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Pope Pius V
PIUS V (POPE) (Antonio Ghislieri; 1504– Read more |
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Pope Sylvester II
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papal
papal of or relating to a pope or to the papacy; recorded from late Middle English, the word comes via Old French and medieval Latin from eccclesiastical Latin papa ‘bishop of Rome’.Papal States the temporal dominions belonging to the Pope, especially in central Italy, over which he... Read more |
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Lewis Theobald
Lewis Theobald , 1688-1744, English author. He is chiefly remembered for his Shakespeare Restored (1726), in which he exposed the inaccuracies of Pope's edition of Shakespeare. Pope retaliated by satirizing him in the 1728 edition of The Dunciad. Theobald also wrote poems and plays.... Read more |
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Scriblerus Club
Scriblerus Club English literary group formed about 1713 to satirize "all the false tastes in learning." Among its chief members were Arbuthnot, Gay, Thomas Parnell, Pope, and Swift. Meetings of the club were discontinued after 1714. The club's major production, "Memoirs... Read more |
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Thomas Parnell
Thomas Parnell 1679-1718, Irish poet, b. Dublin. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was archdeacon of Clogher from 1706. He was a friend of Pope and Swift and a member of the Scriblerus Club. His poems, published posthumously by Pope, include "The Night-Piece on Death" and "Hymn to... Read more |
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Stephen II
Stephen II d. 757, pope (752-57), successor of Pope St. Zacharias . When Rome was threatened by the Lombard king Aistulf, Stephen went to Gaul and appealed to Pepin the Short for help. He became the first pope to cross the Alps. Pepin responded and defeated (754 and 756) Aistulf and restored the... Read more |
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Rappers, oligarchs and mad popes father & son Alex & Dan Melamid get...
* One of the most prominent and controversial Russian artists of his generation, Alex Melamid immigrated to the US in the late '80s. Since 2003, he has focused on a series of meticulously realistic portraits of rap luminaries. Lucky for him, his son is former G-Unit video-guy Dan "The Man" Melamid, |
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Arty and simply too ambitious
...Murthi New Straits Times 10-14-2001 Arty and simply too ambitiousByline: R.S...nice to see elaborate animated graphics or arty video clips at a home page but only the...the latter presents gems like Alexander Pope's `Know Then Thyself', William Blake... |
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Pope Salad Dressed in Classic Rock
...So just how do you whip up a Pope Salad? First, lay down a bed...John Green, lead vocalist for Pope Salad. "I have reservations...band the Slammin' Watusis. Lee Pope was in that band and I used to...of my youth. We're not very arty or indie. We strive to ... |
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THE WEDNESDAY BOOK: A Renaissance fable of vaulting ambition Michelangelo and...
...Vatican master of ceremonies under Pope Julius II, may have been a bit...aged 33. He had impressed the arty- farty set up there with some...quarrelled violently with the Pope over plans for the pontiff...did, several times, before Pope and cardinals dropped ... |
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All good
...Public Good, two one-time Popes finally find their faith Separating...that the self-consciously arty sometimes gets more attention...80s in Chapel Hill with The Popes, releasing Hi, We're the Popes in 1988. "We locked, but we... |
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A choice of gardening books
...but Colour, Eco, Retro, Exotic and Arty also have their place in the royal design...Modern colourists, like Nori and Sandra Pope at Hadspen, search out and breed flowers...out of context with its surroundings'. Arty touches are another theme explored by this... |
 "Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland)")
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Northern exposure
...Something a bit indulgent, because he's arty. And a bit of garnish on top, because he's vain. ("Is Melvyn vain? Is the Pope Catholic?" a journalist once wrote...into the joke and the funnier he gets. Arty but not farty. Clever but not patronising... |
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Simon Pia's Diary:Tearing a strip off Andy Warhol's art
...trip to London in 1986: "At some old arty club called the Cafe Royal where artists...Despite Sinead ripping up a picture of the Pope on television (Catholics are one of the...not to interrupt the Rangers game if the Pope had died is hardly likely to impress the... |
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It's pure animal magic.(Television Program Review)
...Animals (BBC1); The Week They Elected The Pope (C4) FOR those of my generation, Gerald...he had invited a bunch of his weirdo, arty-farty friends to stay for a few days...preceding and following the election of Pope Benedict XVI. A lively procession of Press... |
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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A devilish delight; FILM.(Features)
...Cannes critics - a selfregarding bunch of arty intellectuals - was not so much rapturous...cardinals most likely to become the next Pope, the preferiti, have been kidnapped and...head of state between the death of one Pope and the election of the next, while Stellan... |
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