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That Thing You Do!

Director/Writer:Tom HanksDirector of Photography:Tak FujimotoEditor:Richard ChewMusic:Howard ShoreProduction Designer:Victor KempsterProducers:Gary Goetzman, Jonathan Demme and Edward…

Sebastian, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Sebastian, Saint, fl. 3d cent.?, Roman martyr. Little is known of his life. According to tradition he was an officer of the Praetorian guards much favored by Emperor Diocletian, who…

Tay Ninh

(Encyclopedia) Tay NinhTay Ninhtā nĭn [key], city, S Vietnam, NW of Ho Chi Minh City. It is the center of the Cao Dai, a politically active religious group that was suppressed by South Vietnamese…

Tebéssa

(Encyclopedia) TébessaTébessatəbĕsˈə [key], ancient Theveste, town (1998 pop. 153,246), NE Algeria, in the Atlas Mts. The town is an important agricultural market and is noted for its silk embroidery…

Arcos de la Frontera

(Encyclopedia) Arcos de la Frontera Arcos de la Frontera ärˈkōs dā lä frōntāˈrä [key], town, Cádiz prov., S Spain, in Andalusia, on a rocky hill above the Guadalete…

Knox, Ronald

(Encyclopedia) Knox, Ronald, 1888–1957, English theologian and author. He attended Eton and then Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1910 was ordained as an Anglican minister. Doctrinal preferences,…

Eugene

(Encyclopedia) Eugene, city (2020 pop. 176,654), seat of Lane co., W Oregon, on the Willamette River; inc. 1862. A processing and shipping center in a…

Holy Innocents

(Encyclopedia) Holy Innocents, in the New Testament, children of Bethlehem “from two years old and under,” killed by the order of Herod the Great in the attempt to destroy the infant Jesus. The…

Northwich

(Encyclopedia) NorthwichNorthwichnôrthˈwĭch [key], town (1991 pop. 32,664), Cheshire West and Chester, W central England, at the confluence of the Weaver and Dane rivers. Northwich was once the…

Medeba

(Encyclopedia) MedebaMedebamĕdˈĭbə, mēˈ– [key], town, Jordan, the modern Madaba, E of the Dead Sea. An ancient Moabite town, it changed hands between Moab and Israel several times. In early Christian…