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chapel

(Encyclopedia) chapel, subsidiary place of worship. It is either an alcove or chamber within a church, a separate building, or a room set apart for the purpose of worship in a secular building. A…

Hejaz

(Encyclopedia) Hejaz or HedjazHejazboth: hējăzˈ, hĕjäzˈ [key], region, c.150,000 sq mi (388,500 sq km), NW Saudi Arabia, on the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Mecca is the chief city. Extending S to…

March 2001 Disasters

March 4, Castelo de Paiva, Portugal: Bridge over the Douro River collapsed, plunging a bus and 2 cars into the water. At least 70 people were presumed dead. March 5, Mina, Saudi Arabia: Thirty-five…

April 2005 Disasters

April, Uige, Angola the deadliest outbreak of Marburg, a hemorrhagic fever similar to the deadly Ebola virus, killed more than 280 people since December. Marburg is spread by bodily fluids…

24 Hours of Daytona

Feb. 3-4, at Daytona Beach, Fla. Officially the Rolex 24 at Daytona and first held in 1962 (as a 3-hour race). An IMSA Camel GT race for exotic prototype sports cars and contested over a 3.…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 2

2And such I knew, a forest seer, A minstrel of the natural year, Foreteller of the vernal ides, Wise harbinger of spheres and tides, A lover true, who knew by heart Each joy the mountain…

Central Station

Director:Walter SallesWriters:Joao Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos BernsteinSony Pictures; R; 115 minutesRelease:11/98Cast:Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pera, Vinicius de Oliveira Central Station…

Thomas James McINTYRE, Congress, NH (1915-1992)

Senate Years of Service: 1962-1979 Party: Democrat McINTYRE Thomas James , a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Laconia, Belknap County, N.H., February 20, 1915; attended public and parochial…

Popular Theology

by Ann-Marie Imbornoni Return to the C.S. Lewis Bio In 1933 Lewis published his first major work, The Pilgrim's Regress, an allegorical telling of his own journey to belief in Christ. Along the way…

John Keats: Character of Charles Brown

SonnetsFor There's Bishop's TeignCharacter of Charles Brown I He is to weet a melancholy carle: Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hair As hath the seeded thistle when in parle It…