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Baeda

(Encyclopedia)Baeda: see Bede, Saint.

Santa Claus

(Encyclopedia)Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. ...

Rich, Edmund

(Encyclopedia)Rich, Edmund: see Edmund, Saint. ...

Poor Clares

(Encyclopedia)Poor Clares: see Clare, Saint.

Petrograd

(Encyclopedia)Petrograd: see Saint Petersburg, Russia. ...

Verulamium

(Encyclopedia)Verulamium, England: see Saint Albans. ...

Anguier, François

(Encyclopedia)Anguier, François fräNswäˈ äNgyāˈ [key], 1604–69, French sculptor. He is noted for the monuments of the Longuevilles and of Jacques Souvré (Louvre). His most ambitious work is probably the m...

Jørgensen, Jens Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Jørgensen, Jens Johannes yĕns yōhäˈnəs yörˈgənsən [key], 1866–1956, Danish poet and religious writer. He reacted against the naturalism of Georg Brandes and, in such works as Poems (1898),...

Ladislaus I, king of Hungary

(Encyclopedia)Ladislaus I or Saint Ladislaus lädˈĭslousˌ [key], 1040–95, king of Hungary (1077–95). He supported Pope Gregory VII against Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, but rejected Gregory's suggestion that ...

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