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41fetish — also fetich noun Etymology: French & Portuguese; French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from feitiço artificial, false, from Latin facticius factitious Date: 1613 1. a. an object (as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical… …
42Renaissance — The Renaissance (from French Renaissance , meaning rebirth ; Italian: Rinascimento , from re again and nascere be born ) [ [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=renaissance searchmode=none Renaissance, Online Etymology Dictionary] ] was a… …
43John Bunyan — Born 28 November 1628(1628 11 28) Bedfordshire, England1 Died 31 August 1688(1688 08 31) (aged 59) E …
44Isaac Brock — This article is about the British general. For the musician, see Isaac Brock (musician). Isaac Brock …
45Wilhelm Gesenius — Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (February 3, 1786 ndash; October 23, 1842) was a German orientalist and Biblical critic.He was born at Nordhausen, Thuringia. In 1803 he became a student of philosophy and theology at the University of… …
46Henry Louis Baugher — Henry Louis Baugher, (July 18, 1804 April 14, 1868) was a clergyman and academic. He was born in Abbotstown, Pennsylvania, in 1804 to Christian Frederic and Ann Baugher.He graduated from Dickinson College in 1826, and went on to attend the… …
47A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson — was written by Thomas Tyers for the The Gentleman s Magazine s December 1784 issue. The work was written immediately after the death of Samuel Johnson and is the first postmortem biographical work on the author. The first full length biography… …
48predilection — /pred l ek sheuhn, preed /, n. a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach. [1735 45; < ML praedilect(us) beloved, ptp. of praediligere to prefer (see PRE , DILIGENT) + ION] Syn. bias …
49Benjamin Banneker: Reflections of a Free Black Man (1792) — ▪ Primary Source Benjamin Banneker was one of the most accomplished black men in the early life of the nation. Through self education he became adept in the fields of mathematics, engineering, and astronomy. These abilities brought him to… …
50Alogi — • A party of heretics who arose after the Cataphrygians, Quartodecimans, and others, and who received neither the Gospel of St. John nor his Apocalypse Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Alogi Alogi …
