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Act of Six Articles
Six Articles, Act of, 1539 (31 Hen. VIII c. 14). The Act gave legal and penal authority to a set of highly reactionary statements on issues of church belief and practice. The Six Articles, decided by debate within the House of Lords and approved by convocation, upheld (a)the catholic doctrine of the... Read more |
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Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott
Scott, Mackay Hugh Baillie (1865–1945). British architect. He was articled to Charles Edward Davis (1827–1902), City Architect of Bath. In 1889 he moved to Douglas, IoMan, and in 1893 established his own practice, specializing in domestic architecture that used vernacular motifs,... Read more |
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Thirty-nine Articles
Thirty-Nine Articles The set of doctrinal formulae first issued in 1563 and finally adopted by the Anglican Communion in 1571 as a statement of its position. Many of the articles allow a wide variety of interpretation. They had their origin in several previous definitions, required by the shifts and... Read more |
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community architecture
community architecture. English housing movement involving participation in design of users of buildings. The term was probably coined by Charles Knevitt (1952– ), in an article in Building Design in 1975. Walter Segal pioneered the movement with his system of timber-framed housing... Read more |
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Independence Hall
Independence Hall INDEPENDENCE HALL, a red-brick structure, near the center of Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution were signed. Built between 1732 and 1757 for speaker Andrew Hamilton to serve as provincial Pennsylvania's state... Read more |
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convocation
convocation of the Church of Ireland, organized on the English model as a bicameral clerical assembly meeting concurrently with parliament, was first convened in 1613. The upper house comprised the archbishops and bishops, the lower house archdeacons, deans, and ‘proctors’... Read more |
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Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation in U.S. history, ratified in 1781 and superseded by the Constitution of the United States in 1789. The imperative need for unity among the new states created by the American Revolution and the necessity of defining the relative powers of the Continental Congress and the... Read more |
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