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Johann Bugenhagen Johann Bugenhagen
Bugenhagen, Johann (1485–1558), Lutheran theologian. He played a leading part in the organization of Lutheran Church life in N. Germany and Denmark. The ‘Brunswick Church Order’ of 1528 was mainly his work. In 1537 he went to Denmark; here he rearranged ecclesiastical affairs on... Read more
Cana Cana
Cana , ancient town of Galilee. According to the Gospel of St. John it was here that Jesus performed his first miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding.... Read more
Jacopo Torriti Jacopo Torriti
Torriti, Jacopo (active 1290s). Italian mosaicist and painter. Nothing is known of his life, but he signed mosaics commissioned by Pope Nicholas IV for the apses of two churches in Rome, S. Giovanni in Laterano (c.1291), and S. Maria Maggiore (c.1295), and he must have been one of the leading... Read more
Rehoboth Rehoboth
Rehoboth, Namibia, USA 1. Namibia: originally Anis ‘Steam’ because of the hot springs here. In 1844 it was given a biblical name by a German missionary, who built a church here as the centre of a mission station. The name means ‘Large Spaces’.2. USA (Massachusetts):... Read more
Ogden Nash Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash 1902-71, American poet, b. Rye, N.Y., studied at Harvard. He was popular for a wide assortment of witty and immensely quotable doggerel verses, ranging from urbane satire to absurdity in their subject and rhyme. For several decades his work appeared regularly in The New Yorker ... Read more
An American Tragedy An American Tragedy
American Tragedy, An, novel by Dreiser, published in 1925 and dramatized by Patrick Kearney in 1926. The plot is based on an actual New York murder case.Clyde Griffiths, son of street evangelists in Kansas City, desires to escape his family's drab life and to win wealth and social position.... Read more
Foca Foca
Foça, Turkey. Phocaea An ancient Ionian city which may take its name from Phocus, the colony's leader. In Greek mythology, he appeared to his father in the form of a seal (in Greek, phóke), hence his name. It may be, however, that the place gets its name from the large number of seals... Read more
Carneades Carneades
Carneades Carneades (ca. 213-ca. 128 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher of the third school of academic skepticism. His combination of skepticism and empiricism can now be seen to have remarkable affinities with a good deal of post-Renaissance Western philosophy. Carneades was born in Cyrene.... Read more
William Tennent William Tennent
William Tennent 1673-1745, American Presbyterian clergyman and educator, b. Ireland, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1695. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1706. He emigrated to America c.1718; in 1726 he was called to a pastorate in Neshaminy, Pa., where he stayed the remainder of his life.... Read more
Sandakan Sandakan
Sandakan, Sabah/Malaysia Elopura Founded in 1879 by William Clarke Cowie who moved his base, called Sandakan, here. He named it Elopura ‘Beautiful City’ in recognition of the beautiful natural harbour. It was subsequently renamed Sandakan ‘Place that was pawned’ from... Read more

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