Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

National Rifle Association of America

(Encyclopedia)National Rifle Association of America (NRA), group founded (1871) to promote shooting, hunting, firearm safety, and wildlife conservation. The NRA has more than 3 million members. The association spon...

Latin American Free Trade Association

(Encyclopedia)Latin American Free Trade Association: see Latin American Integration Association. ...

Susanna

(Encyclopedia)Susanna. 1 Heroine of a story told in the Book of Daniel, in a chapter (13) placed in the Apocrypha in the Authorized Version (see Daniel). Two elders attempt to seduce Susanna and are repulsed; they ...

Misael

(Encyclopedia)Misael mĭsˈāəl [key], one of the Three Young Men. ...

Meshach

(Encyclopedia)Meshach mēˈshăk [key], one of the Three Young Men. ...

Shadrach

(Encyclopedia)Shadrach shāˈdrăk [key], one of the Three Young Men. ...

Civilian Conservation Corps

(Encyclopedia)Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), established in 1933 by the U.S. Congress as a measure of the New Deal program. The CCC provided work and vocational training for unemployed single young men through ...

Ballou, Adin

(Encyclopedia)Ballou, Adin bălo͞oˈ [key], 1803–90, American Universalist clergyman, b. Cumberland, R.I. He was prominent in the movement that resulted in the Massachusetts Association of Universal Restorationi...

Confraternity of Christian Doctrine

(Encyclopedia)Confraternity of Christian Doctrine: see Bible. ...

Christian art and architecture

(Encyclopedia)Christian art and architecture: see especially the survey articles on Early Christian art and architecture, Byzantine art and architecture, Coptic art, Merovingian art and architecture, Carolingian ar...