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Weise, Christian

(Encyclopedia)Weise, Christian krĭsˈtyän vīˈzə [key], 1642–1708, German didactic poet and dramatist. He wrote more than 60 plays, many of them written for production in schools. Perhaps the best-known are t...

Southern Illinois University

(Encyclopedia)Southern Illinois University, main campus at Carbondale; state supported; coeducational; est. 1869, opened 1874 as a normal school, renamed 1947. It has a center for archaeological investigation and a...

Texas Southern University

(Encyclopedia)Texas Southern University, at Houston; coeducational; state supported; est. 1947 as Texas State Univ., attained university status 1951; predominantly African American. It has schools of arts and scien...

Southern Methodist University

(Encyclopedia)Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of p...

Christian IV

(Encyclopedia)Christian IV, 1577–1648, king of Denmark and Norway (1588–1648), son and successor of Frederick II. After assuming (1596) personal rule from a regency, he concentrated on building the navy, indust...

Metz, Christian

(Encyclopedia)Metz, Christian: see Amana Church Society. ...

Christian Brothers

(Encyclopedia)Christian Brothers: see John Baptist de la Salle, Saint. ...

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