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Father Grows Up

A history of TV's most famous dads by Beth Rowen The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Related Links Father's Day featuresTimeline of Father's Day2,000 Years of the NecktieAlmanac:…

Maryknoll

(Encyclopedia) Maryknoll, headquarters of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, near Ossining, N.Y. A Roman Catholic community of priests (the “Maryknoll Fathers”) are there especially…

Fathers by the Numbers

Facts about dads from the U.S. Census Bureau Related Links Father's Day Timeline Father's Day Quotations Father's Day Quiz   The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly…

Brewer's: Father

A friar in holy orders. (See Brother .) A father suckled by his daughter. Euphrasia, the Grecian daughter, so preserved the life of Evander, her aged father. Xantippe so preserved the life…

Father's Day

Director: Ivan ReitmanWriters: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo MandelDirector of Photography:Stephen H. BurumEditors:Sheldon Kahn and Wendy Greene BricmontMusic:James Newton HowardProduction Designer…

Fathers of the Church

(Encyclopedia) Fathers of the Church, collective name for the Christian writers of early times whose work is considered generally orthodox. A convenient definition includes all such writers up to and…

patristic literature

(Encyclopedia) patristic literature, Christian writings of the first few centuries. They are chiefly in Greek and Latin; there is analogous writing in Syriac and in Armenian. The first period of…

Poems: The Little Girl Found

by WilliamBlakeThe Little Girl LostThe Chimney SweeperThe Little Girl Found All the night in woe Lyca's parents go Over valleys deep, While the deserts weep. Tired and woe-…

Brewer's: Well-founded Doctor

AEgidius de Columna. (*-1316.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Well of English UndefiledWell-beloved A B C D E F G H I…