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Hitler Youth Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth The youth organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei Read more
Youth Youth
YOUTH YOUTH. The transitional phase of life between childhood and adulthood in early modern Europe is not easily fixed chronologically. Traditionally childhood ended around age seven, but since full adulthood was usually marked by marriage, "youth" (Latin iuventus ) could last as little as ten... Read more
Thomas Churchyard Thomas Churchyard
Thomas Churchyard 1520?-1604, English author. In his youth he was page to Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. He spent most of his life as a professional soldier, serving in Scotland, Flanders, and France. His best-known work, the poem Shore's Wife, was contributed to the 1563 edition of the Mirror... Read more
Damon and Pythias Damon and Pythias
Damon and Pythias , two youths whose loyalty to each other symbolizes true friendship. Pythias, a Pythagorean, condemned to death for plotting against Dionysius I of Syracuse, was given leave to arrange his affairs after Damon pledged to give his own life if his friend did not return. When Pythias... Read more
Scottsboro Case Scottsboro Case
Scottsboro Case In 1931 nine black youths were indicted at Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women in a freight car passing through Alabama. In a series of trials the youths were found guilty and sentenced to death or to prison terms of 75 to 99 years. The U.S. Supreme Court... Read more
White House Conference on Children and Youth White House Conference on Children and Youth
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH The National Committee for Children and Youth (NCCY) is a private association that was established in 1960 as a part of President Eisenhower's White House Conference on Children and Youth. It was thus part of a larger initiative intended to improve the... Read more
Ibn Tumart Ibn Tumart
Ibn Tumart , c.1080-1130, Berber Muslim religious leader, founder of the Almohads . He went to the East in his youth and returned convinced that he was the Mahdi and that he was destined to reform Islam. He was a rigorist and purist in doctrine and morality. Believing in a mystical concept of the... Read more
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus , in a Christian version of a widespread story, martyrs immured in a cave near Ephesus during the persecutions by Decius (c.250). Long afterward, in the 5th cent., they awoke (as from sleep) and were taken before Theodosius II, Roman emperor of the east. Their story... Read more
Vance Nye Bourjaily Vance Nye Bourjaily
Bourjaily, Vance [Nye] (1922–), Ohio‐born writer, after service in World War II wrote The End of My Life (1947), a novel about a young man's collapse in the war, and The Hound of Earth (1954), about a scientist who runs away from his army job and his family after the bombing of... Read more

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