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Baeda

(Encyclopedia)Baeda: see Bede, Saint.

Petrograd

(Encyclopedia)Petrograd: see Saint Petersburg, Russia. ...

Santa Claus

(Encyclopedia)Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. ...

Rich, Edmund

(Encyclopedia)Rich, Edmund: see Edmund, Saint. ...

Nazianzen

(Encyclopedia)Nazianzen: see Gregory Nazianzen, Saint. ...

Verulamium

(Encyclopedia)Verulamium, England: see Saint Albans. ...

Ladislaus I, king of Hungary

(Encyclopedia)Ladislaus I or Saint Ladislaus lädˈĭslousˌ [key], 1040–95, king of Hungary (1077–95). He supported Pope Gregory VII against Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, but rejected Gregory's suggestion that ...

Anguier, François

(Encyclopedia)Anguier, François fräNswäˈ äNgyāˈ [key], 1604–69, French sculptor. He is noted for the monuments of the Longuevilles and of Jacques Souvré (Louvre). His most ambitious work is probably the m...

Jørgensen, Jens Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Jørgensen, Jens Johannes yĕns yōhäˈnəs yörˈgənsən [key], 1866–1956, Danish poet and religious writer. He reacted against the naturalism of Georg Brandes and, in such works as Poems (1898),...

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