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Second Council of Lyons
Second Council of Lyons 1274, 14th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. It was summoned by Pope Gregory X to discuss problems in the Holy Land, to remove the schism of East and West, and to reform the church. The reunion of Constantinople and Rome had been proposed by the Byzantine em...
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Peyton Randolph
Peyton Randolph
American patriot Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), president of the first Continental Congress, was instrumental in securing independence for the United States of America.
At the time of Peyton Randolph's birth, the future United States of America was an assortment of 13 separate ...
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Saint Celestine V
Saint Celestine V 1215-96, pope (elected July 5, resigned Dec. 13, 1294), an Italian (b. Isernia) named Pietro del Murrone; successor of Nicholas IV. Celestine's election ended a two-year deadlock among the cardinals over a successor to Nicholas IV. Although he was known for his austere life as a h...
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political action committee
political action committee (PAC), U.S. organization formed by a corporation, labor union, or association to raise money for political activity. Funds can be gathered by voluntary contributions from members, employees, or shareholders. Political action committees were first organized in the 1940s. T...
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan , province (2001 pop. 978,933), 251,700 sq mi (651,903 sq km), W Canada.
Geography
Saskatchewan is bounded by the Northwest Territories (N), Manitoba (E), North Dakota and Montana (S), and Alberta (W). One of the Prairie Provinces, its northern third is part of the Canadian S...
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Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr 1756-1836, American political leader, b. Newark, N.J., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton).
Political Career
A brilliant law student, Burr interrupted his study to serve in the American Revolution and proved himself a valiant soldier in early campaigns. In 1779 ill heal...
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New Democratic party
New Democratic party (NDP), Canadian political party, founded in 1961 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) reorganized itself and entered into close ties with Canadian labor unions, especially the Canadian Labor Congress (CLC). The CCF, formed in 1932, began as a largely W Canadian f...
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electors
electors in the history of the Holy Roman Empire , the princes who had the right to elect the German kings or, more exactly, the kings of the Romans (Holy Roman emperors). Until the reign (1493-1519) of Maximilian I , however, an elected king was traditionally crowned by the pope before he was ca...
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William Thomas Cosgrave
William Thomas Cosgrave kŏz´grāv , 1880-1965, Irish statesman; father of Liam Cosgrave . A member of Sinn Féin , he fought in the Easter Rebellion (1916) and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Freed a year later, he was elected to the British Parliament in 1918 but protest...
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh [Bengali,=Bengal nation], officially People's Republic of Bangladesh, republic (2005 est. pop. 144,320,000), 55,126 sq mi (142,776 sq km), S Asia. Bangladesh borders on the Bay of Bengal in the south; on the Indian states of West Bengal in the west and north, Assam and Meghalaya in the n...
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