(Encyclopedia) Trinity [Lat.,=threefoldness], fundamental doctrine in Christianity, by which God is considered as existing in three persons. While the doctrine is not explicitly taught in the New…
Girls Across America by Holly Hartman From Tracy, California, to Chelsea, Vermont, the map of the United States is dotted with girls' names. Here are a few. Allison, Iowa Amy, Kansas…
East Favorite Tennessee (28-2) returns with almost the entire squad that went a perfect 39-0 last season, culminating in a 93-75 trouncing of Louisiana Tech in the National Championship game.…
Twenty-five-year-old Tony Bui is another young filmmaker sure to win a fair share of attention this fall. His debut, Three Seasons, makes outsider filmmaking history — it's…
(Encyclopedia) clown, a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor…
(Encyclopedia) Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844–89, English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, he was ordained in 1877. Upon becoming a…
(Encyclopedia) Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan Byatt)Byatt, A. S.bīˈət [key], 1936–, British novelist; sister of Margaret Drabble. Educated at Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College, Pa., and Oxford, she is a…
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