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Inver Grove Heights

(Encyclopedia) Inver Grove Heights, city (2020 pop. 36,092), Dakota co., SE Minn. A suburb of St. Paul, its manufactures include motor-vehicle and…

Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de

(Encyclopedia) Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal deRetz, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal dezhäN fräNswäˈ pōl də gôNdēˈ, də rĕts [key], 1613–79, French prelate and political leader. He…

Claudius Lysias

(Encyclopedia) Claudius LysiasClaudius Lysiaslĭsˈēəs [key], in the Acts of the Apostles, official at Jerusalem who saved Paul from the mob.

Euodias

(Encyclopedia) EuodiasEuodiasy&oomacr;ōˈdēəs [key], in the New Testament, Philippian Christian urged by Paul to be reconciled with Syntyche.

Lydia, in the Bible

(Encyclopedia) LydiaLydialĭdˈēə [key], in the New Testament, Christian convert at whose house in Philippi Paul stayed. She was from Thyatira.

Adramyttium

(Encyclopedia) AdramyttiumAdramyttiumădˌrəmĭtˈēəm [key], place, the modern Edremit, NW Turkey. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul's ship was built here.

William Eldridge FRENZEL, Congress, MN (1928)

FRENZEL, William Eldridge, a Representative from Minnesota; born in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., July 31, 1928; educated at the St. Paul Academy, St. Paul, Minn.; B.A., Dartmouth College,…

Getty Center

(Encyclopedia) Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif., operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory…

Mark, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Mark, Saint [Lat. Marcus], Christian apostle, traditional author of the 2d Gospel (see Mark, Gospel according to). His full name was John Mark. His mother, named Mary, had a house in…

Ramsey, Norman Foster, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Ramsey, Norman Foster, Jr., 1915–2011, American physicist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Columbia, 1940. A member of the faculty at Harvard from 1947 and the Higgins professor of physics…