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Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
(Encyclopedia)Martin Van Buren National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Albemarle, Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st earl of
(Encyclopedia)Albemarle, Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st earl of ălˈbəmärl [key], 1669–1718, Dutch adherent and constant companion of William III of England. He accompanied the future king to England (1688) and ...Caraglio, Giovanni Jacopo
(Encyclopedia)Caraglio, Giovanni Jacopo jōvänˈnē yäˈkōpō käräˈlyō [key], c.1500–1565, Italian engraver and designer, known also as Jacobus Parmensis and Jacobus Veronensis. He was a pupil of Raimondi ...Arminianism
(Encyclopedia)Arminianism: see Arminius, Jacobus. ...Harmensen, Jacob
(Encyclopedia)Harmensen, Jacob: see Arminius, Jacobus. ...Houbraken, Arnold
(Encyclopedia)Houbraken, Arnold ärˈnōlt houˈbräˌkən [key], 1660–1719, Dutch painter, etcher, and author of The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters (3 vol., 1718–21), containing important biographies. His son...Churches of God, General Conference
(Encyclopedia)Churches of God, General Conference, conservative evangelical Christian bodies, Arminian in faith (see Jacobus Arminius), with certain Baptist doctrines. The movement originated during revivals held i...Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
(Encyclopedia)Johnson, Philip Cortelyou, 1906–2005, American architect, museum curator, and historian, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1927). One of the first Americans to study modern European architect...Golden Legend, The
(Encyclopedia)Golden Legend, The, collection of saints' lives written in the 13th cent. by Jacobus da Varagine. Originally entitled Legenda sanctorum [readings in the lives of the saints], it soon came to be called...Rutherford, Samuel
(Encyclopedia)Rutherford, Samuel, 1600–1661, Scottish clergyman. His Exercitationes apologeticae pro divina gratia (1636), urging a Calvinist view of grace against Arminianism (see under Arminius, Jacobus), cause...Browse by Subject
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