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The Top Ten: Top 10 Selling Albums, 2012

Top Selling Albums, 2012 Singer Adele tops the list for most albums sold in 2012. See who else made this year's ranking. Rank Title, Artist 1. 21, Adele 2. Red, Taylor…

The Top Ten: Top 10 Selling Albums, 2012

Top Selling Albums, 2012 Singer Adele tops the list for most albums sold in 2012. See who else made this year's ranking. Rank Title, Artist 1. 21, Adele 2. Red, Taylor…

Sanusi

(Encyclopedia) Sanusi or SenussiSanusiboth: sən&oomacr;ˈsĭ [key], Arabic Sanusiyya, a political-religious organization in Libya and Sudan founded in Mecca in 1837 by Muhammad bin Ali al-Sanusi (…

Procopius

(Encyclopedia) ProcopiusProcopiusprōkōˈpēəs [key], d. 565?, Byzantine historian, b. Caesarea in Palestine. He accompanied Belisarius on his campaigns as his secretary, and later he commanded the…

De Witt CLINTON, Congress, NY (1769-1828)

Senate Years of Service: 1802-1803Party: Democratic RepublicanCLINTON, De Witt, (half brother of James Graham Clinton, nephew of George Clinton[1739-1812] and brother of George Clinton [1771-…

Watson Carvosso SQUIRE, Congress, WA (1838-1926)

Senate Years of Service: 1889-1897Party: RepublicanSQUIRE, Watson Carvosso, a Senator from Washington; born in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, N.Y., May 18, 1838; attended the public schools,…

Mark, Gospel according to

(Encyclopedia) Mark, Gospel according to, 2d book of the New Testament. The shortest of the four Gospels and probably the earliest, it is usually thought to have been composed shortly before the…

New Testament

(Encyclopedia) New Testament, the distinctively Christian portion of the Bible, consisting of 27 books of varying lengths dating from the earliest Christian period. The seven epistles whose…

Fromm, Erich

(Encyclopedia) Fromm, ErichFromm, Erichĕrˈĭkh frōm, frŏm [key], 1900–1980, psychoanalyst and author, b. Frankfurt, Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Heidelberg, 1922. From 1929 to 1932 he lectured at the…