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Periodic Table of the Elements (table)

(Encyclopedia)Periodic Table of the Elements (showing atomic number and atomic symbol; click on atomic symbol for more detailed information) Lanthanide Series(Rare Earth Elements) Actinide Series(Radioactive Rar...

Church Slavonic

(Encyclopedia)Church Slavonic, language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages). Although it is still the liturgical language of m...

Renewed Church of the Brethren

(Encyclopedia)Renewed Church of the Brethren: see Moravian Church. ...

Nestorian Church

(Encyclopedia)Nestorian Church, officially the Assyrian Church of the East, Christian community of Iraq, Iran, and SW India. It represents the ancient church of Persia and is sometimes also called the East Syrian C...

Mary, the mother of Jesus

(Encyclopedia)Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos). Her name is the He...

table

(Encyclopedia)table, article of furniture employed for household or ecclesiastical purposes. Elaborately decorated tables of wood or metal were known in ancient Egypt and Assyria, and the Greeks used small tables o...

Oratory, Congregation of the

(Encyclopedia)Oratory, Congregation of the [Lat. abbr., Cong. Orat.], in the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1575, an association of secular priests organized into independent communities according to the rule wr...

Hadrian, for popes, variant spelling of Adrian

(Encyclopedia)Hadrian. For popes of that name, use Adrian.

Signs of the Zodiac (table)

(Encyclopedia)Signs of the Zodiac

Periodic Table of the Elements: Actinium

(Encyclopedia)Periodic Table of the Elements: Actinium ...