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21Jacques Offenbach — Offenbach in the 1860s Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a Prussian born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann …
22Baal Shem Tov — Infobox Rebbe title = Israel Baal Shem Tov caption = term = full name =רבי ישראל בן אליעזר Yisroel ben Eliezer main work = Keser Shem Tov Shivchei HaBesht predecessor = successor =Dov Ber of Mezritsh (1704 1772) spouse1 =Chana issue1 =Tsvi of… …
23Samuel Carter Hall — (May 9, 1800 March 11, 1889) was an Irish born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much satirised personality. Early yearsHall was born at Waterford. His father was Robert Hall (1753 10 January …
24Franz Wright — (born March 18, 1953) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet.Born in Vienna and educated at Oberlin College (1977), Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2004 for his book Walking to Martha s Vineyard (ISBN 0 375 41518 1). He and his… …
25David P. Calleo — is an American intellectual and political economist, based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he holds the title of University Professor. A noted American theorist on Europe and its future, Calleo was… …
26international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
27piosity — /puy os i tee/, n., pl. piosities. 1. an excessive or obvious show of piety; sanctimoniousness. 2. an act or instance of such piety: the piosities of our Puritan forefathers. [1920 25; PIOUS + ITY; modeled on religious, religiosity] * * * …
28sanctimonious — sanctimoniously, adv. sanctimoniousness, n. /sangk teuh moh nee euhs/, adj. 1. making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America. 2. Obs. holy; sacred.… …
29Moral Theology — • Limited to those doctrines which discuss the relations of man and his free actions to God and his supernatural end, and propose the means instituted by God for the attainment of that end Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Moral Theology …
30religiosity — noun The quality of being religious or pious, especially when zealous or exaggerated. Syn: devoutness, pietism, religiousism, religiousness, sanctimoniousness …
