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71Judith Sargent Murray — (1751 1820) was an early American advocate for women s rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the sexes that women, like men, had the capability of… …
72St. Anthony — St. Anthony † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Anthony Founder of Christian monasticism. The chief source of information on St. Anthony is a Greek Life attributed to St. Athanasius, to be found in any edition of his works. A note of the… …
73BETA ISRAEL — BETA ISRAEL, ethno religious group in Ethiopia which claims to be of Jewish origin and which is attached to a form of the Jewish religion based on the Bible, certain books of the Apocrypha, and other post biblical Scripture; living in the… …
74Hillel of Verona — Hillel ben Samuel of Verona (c. 1220 ndash; c. 1295) was an Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar Eleazar ben Samuel of Verona. LifeHe spent his youth at Barcelona, where he studied the Talmud… …
75Christian monasticism before 451 — Eastern Christian monasticism developed for around a century and a half, and as a spontaneous religious movement, up to the time of the Council of Chalcedon, which took place in 451. At that Council, monasticism had become an acknowledged part of …
76Murray, Judith Sargent Stevens — ▪ American writer née Judith Sargent born May 1, 1751, Gloucester, Mass. [U.S.] died July 6, 1820, Natchez, Miss., U.S. American writer during the early republic, remembered largely for her essays and journalistic comment on contemporary… …
77Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl, Viscount Amberley Of Amberley And Of Ardsalla — ▪ prime minister of United Kingdom also called (until 1861) Lord John Russell born Aug. 18, 1792, London, Eng. died May 28, 1878, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey prime minister of Great Britain (1846–52, 1865–66), an aristocratic liberal… …
78Desiderius Erasmus — Desiderius Erasmus † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Desiderius Erasmus The most brilliant and most important leader of German humanism, b. at Rotterdam, Holland, 28 October, probably in 1466; d. at Basle, Switzerland, 12 July, 1536. He was… …
79Eastern Monasticism Before Chalcedon — Eastern Monasticism Before Chalcedon (A.D. 451) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Eastern Monasticism Before Chalcedon (A.D. 451) Egypt was the Motherland of Christian monasticism. It sprang into existence there at the beginning of the fourth …
80Discourse on colonialism — Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism) is a text written by Aimé Césaire and published in 1955. It is a key text of postcolonial literature.[1] Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism has been labeled “a declaration of war.”[1] It is… …
