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(Encyclopedia)Bergen op Zoom bĕrˈgən ôp zōmˈ [key], town, North Brabant prov., SW Netherlands, on the Zoom River near ...fabliau
(Encyclopedia)fabliau, plural fabliaux both: fäblēōˈ [key], short comic, often bawdy tale in verse that deals realistically and satirically with middle-class or lower-class characters. Fabliaux were often direc...Russian Church
(Encyclopedia)Russian Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. ...Greek Church
(Encyclopedia)Greek Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. ...Byzantine rite
(Encyclopedia)Byzantine rite: see Orthodox Eastern Church. ...Woodlands culture
(Encyclopedia)Woodlands culture: see Eastern Woodlands culture. ...Roy, Rammohun
(Encyclopedia)Roy, Rammohun räm-mōˈhən roi [key], 1772–1833, Indian religious and educational reformer. Sometimes called the father of modern India, Roy was born to a wealthy and devout Brahman family in Beng...Russian Orthodox Church
(Encyclopedia)Russian Orthodox Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. ...coywolf
(Encyclopedia)coywolf, another name for the eastern coyote. ...Orrmulum
(Encyclopedia)Orrmulum or Ormulum both: ôrmˈyo͞oləm [key], Middle English collection of homilies on the Gospels, in verse, comprising about 10,000 lines in all. The collection was written c.1200 by Orrm (or Orr...Browse by Subject
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