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Claudius Lysias

(Encyclopedia) Claudius LysiasClaudius Lysiaslĭsˈēəs [key], in the Acts of the Apostles, official at Jerusalem who saved Paul from the mob.

Adramyttium

(Encyclopedia) AdramyttiumAdramyttiumădˌrəmĭtˈēəm [key], place, the modern Edremit, NW Turkey. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul's ship was built here.

Ramsey, Norman Foster, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Ramsey, Norman Foster, Jr., 1915–2011, American physicist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Columbia, 1940. A member of the faculty at Harvard from 1947 and the Higgins professor of physics…

Rostopchin, Feodor Vasilyevich, Count

(Encyclopedia) Rostopchin, Feodor Vasilyevich, CountRostopchin, Feodor Vasilyevich, Countfyôˈdər vəsēˈlyəvĭch, rəstəpchēnˈ [key], 1763–1826, Russian general and statesman. He rose rapidly under Czar…

Mark, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Mark, Saint [Lat. Marcus], Christian apostle, traditional author of the 2d Gospel (see Mark, Gospel according to). His full name was John Mark. His mother, named Mary, had a house in…

Getty Center

(Encyclopedia) Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif., operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory…

Boyer, Paul Delos

(Encyclopedia) Boyer, Paul Delos, 1918–2018, American biochemist, b. Provo, Utah, Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, 1943. Boyer taught at the Univ. of Minnesota, first in Saint Paul (1946–56) and…

Derbe

(Encyclopedia) DerbeDerbedûrˈbē [key], ancient town of Lycaonia, Asia Minor. The Acts of the Apostles relates that Paul and Barnabas fled there from Iconium.

Agabus

(Encyclopedia) AgabusAgabusăgˈəbəs [key], in the New Testament, prophet who foretold the famine in the time of Claudius Caesar and the imprisonment of Paul.

Counter Reformation

(Encyclopedia) Counter Reformation, 16th-century reformation that arose largely in answer to the Protestant Reformation; sometimes called the Catholic Reformation. Although the Roman Catholic…