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Tabernacle
Tabernacle , in the Bible, the portable holy place of the Hebrews during their desert wanderings. It was a tent, like the portable tent-shrines used by ancient Semites, set up in each camp; eventually it housed the Ark of the Covenant. In the Book of Numbers, the Tabernacle is referred to as the ... Read more |
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altar
altar table or platform for the performance of religious sacrifice. In its simplest form the altar is a small pile, with a square or circular surface, made of stone or wood. Its features vary according to its purpose. The altar of libation usually has a drain for the liquid, and so does the altar... Read more |
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Feast of Tabernacles
Feast of Tabernacles one of the oldest and most joyous of Jewish holidays, called in the Bible the Feast of Ingathering and today often called by its Hebrew name, Sukkoth [Heb.,=booth]. The holiday begins on the 15th day of Tishri, the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, and lasts for eight days... Read more |
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Hosanna
Hosanna [Heb.,=save now; Psalm 118], an intensified imperative, a cry, addressed to God, particularly used in the Feast of Tabernacles, when prayers for rain were offered. In the New Testament the crowd shouted it when Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. It is used as an acclamation in... Read more |
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wherry
wherry. 1. A decked sailing vessel of very shallow draught used for the transport of small quantities of freight on the Norfolk Broads in England. They have a considerable beam in relation to their length and are fitted with a single mast carrying a large loose-footed gaff-rigged mainsail and no... Read more |
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Adam Kraft
Adam Kraft , c.1455-1509, German sculptor of Nuremberg. He moved from an ornamental late Gothic style toward clarity, symmetry, and a powerful use of rounded, organically constructed figures. His decorations for the Schreyer family tomb (c.1490) in the Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg and his... Read more |
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citron
citron , name for a tree ( Citrus medica ) of the family Rutaceae ( orange family), and for its fruit, the earliest of the citrus fruits to be introduced to Europe from Asia. The small evergreen tree is now cultivated commercially in the Mediterranean region and, to a lesser extent, in the West... Read more |
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Desiderio da Settignano
Desiderio da Settignano , c.1429-64, Florentine sculptor, a follower of Donatello . His exquisitely delicate marble carving is best seen in his church decorations, bas-reliefs, and busts of women and children. Two bas-reliefs in American collections, Young St. John the Baptist (National Gallery,... Read more |
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Ogden
Ogden city (1990 pop. 63,909), seat of Weber co., N Utah, at the confluence of the Ogden and Weber rivers; inc. 1851. Aerospace industries and Hill Air Force Base are the major employers. There is weapons design and the manufacture of paper, metal, carbon fiber, and computer products;... Read more |
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Charles Taze Russell
Charles Taze Russell 1852-1916, founder of the movement whose followers are known as Russellites, as Bible Students, and (since 1931) as Jehovah's Witnesses , b. Pittsburgh, Pa. There he predicted (1872) the second coming of Christ and the millennium. In 1878 he organized his followers as an... Read more |
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The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody
...text, the English Bible, allowed evangelicals all over the...Sankey crossed the Atlantic to preach to huge audiences with a...over London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, where he preached to the largest Protestant congregation in the world... |