Only show
results for:

Topics related to "Pope stresses moral truthJohn Paul II visits the US"

us us
... Read more
Eugene Paul Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner
Eugene Paul Wigner , 1902-95, American physicist, b. Hungary, grad. Technische Hochschule, Berlin, 1925. He was a professor at Princeton Univ. from 1930 to 1936 and again from 1938 to 1971. In 1937 he became a U.S. citizen. During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project , which resulted in... Read more
U.S. Army U.S. Army
... Read more
Calendar reform Calendar reform
calendar reform, 1751. To remedy the imperfections introduced by Julius Caesar, most of Europe adopted after 1582 the reform proposed by Pope Gregory XIII. Reluctant to follow popish examples, some protestant countries stayed with the old calendar, which became increasingly out of line. The Act... Read more
Johan Bojer Johan Bojer
Bojer, Johan (1872–1959), Norwegian novelist, visited the U.S. (1923) to gather material for his novel, The Emigrants (1925), concerned with the settling of the Middle West by Norwegian farmers.... Read more
Paul Henry Nitze Paul Henry Nitze
Paul Henry Nitze , 1907-2004, American public official, b. Amherst, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1927. After working in investment banking, he entered government service in 1940 and served in a variety of posts, including that of vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (1944-46). As head of... Read more
Cape Kennedy Cape Kennedy
Cape, eastern Florida, U.S. It is the location of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and the launch site of U.S. spaceflights, which included the first U.S. manned spaceflight (1961), the first lunar-landing flight (1969), and flights of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded shortly after... Read more
Wake Island Wake Island
Wake Island atoll with three islets (Wake, Wilkes, and Peale), 3 sq mi (7.8 sq km), central Pacific, between Hawaii and Guam. It is a U.S. military base and scientific research center under the jurisdiction of the Dept. of the Interior and the U.S. Air Force. There is no indigenous population. Wake... Read more
Fort Bragg Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg U.S. army base, 11,136 acres (4,507 hectares), E N.C., N of Fayetteville; est. 1918. Originally an artillery post, it is now the principal U.S. army airborne-training center and the site of the Special Warfare School. Pope Air Force Base is located within the reservation.... Read more
Bastogne Bastogne
Bastogne , Du. Bastenaken, town (1991 pop. 12,187), Luxembourg prov., SE Belgium, in the Ardennes and near the border of the duchy of Luxembourg. It is a rail junction and market town noted for its hams. In World War II during the Battle of the Bulge (Dec., 1944-Jan., 1945), it was held mainly... Read more

Sorry, no results were found on Encyclopedia.com

No reference documents or articles match the search term Pope stresses moral truthJohn Paul II visits the US


Suggestions:

  • Check the spelling of your search term
  • Try using fewer keywords
  • Try using more general keywords