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Moise Kapenda Tshombe
Moise Kapenda Tshombe , 1919-69, political leader in Congo (Kinshasa). He was related to the royal family of the Lunda people and received his education at mission schools. In 1951 he was elected to the advisory provisional council of Katanga and later became (1959) president of the Belgian-supporte...
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Croydon
Croydon outer borough (1991 pop. 299,600) of Greater London, SE England. It is London's second largest shopping and cultural center after West End. London's first airport, the Croydon Aerodrome, was constructed there in 1915 but closed in 1959 after Heathrow was built. Scientific instruments, inter...
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Kirchhoff's laws
Kirchhoff's laws [for Gustav R. Kirchhoff ], pair of laws stating general restrictions on the current and voltage in an electric circuit . The first of these states that at any given instant the sum of the voltages around any closed path, or loop, in the network is zero. The second states that at...
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Obadiah
Obadiah short prophetic book of the Bible. The prophet is otherwise unknown. The oracle which comprises this book dates from after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC The prophecy calls down doom on Edom, who had gloated over the misfortune of Israel, and announces that the ex...
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Corinthians
Corinthians , two letters of the New Testament. They were written to the church at Corinth by Paul whose stay in Corinth is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. First Corinthians, written probably at Ephesus early in AD 55, is one of the longest and most important epistles. It shows Paul applying...
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Jude
Jude epistle of the New Testament, the next to last book of the Bible. The Jude who wrote it has been identified since ancient times with St. Jude the apostle, but most modern scholars deny the identity and date the letter as late as AD 100. It is called a Catholic (or General) Epistle, but it is c...
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yaws
yaws or frambesia, tropical infection of the skin caused by a spirochete ( Treponema pertenue ) closely related to that causing syphilis . Yaws, however, is not a sexually transmitted disease , i.e., it is not contracted by sexual contact; transmission is through ordinary contact with infecte...
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Second Vatican Council
Second Vatican Council popularly called Vatican II, 1962-65, the 21st ecumenical council (see council, ecumenical ) of the Roman Catholic Church, convened by Pope John XXIII and continued under Paul VI . Its announced purpose was spiritual renewal of the church and reconsideration of the po...
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World Trade Center
World Trade Center former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site; it was destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Prior to its destruction, the World Trade Center had been the world's large...
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closed shop and open shop
closed shop and open shop The term "closed shop" is used to signify an establishment employing only members of a labor union. The union shop, a closely allied term, indicates a company where employees do not have to belong to a labor union when hired but are required to join within a specified ...
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