(Encyclopedia) fundamentalism. 1 In Protestantism, religious movement that arose among conservative members of various Protestant denominations early in the 20th cent., with the object of maintaining…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Washington
Member Name Birth-Death ADAMS, Brockman (Brock) 1927-2004 ALLEN, John Beard 1845-1903 ANDERSON, James Patton 1822-…
2,000 Years of the NecktieThe Modern Business Suit Takes Shape by David Johnson NECKTIESTHROUGH THE AGES Introduction • 210 B.C.China's First Emperor • 113 A.D.Did Romans…
(Encyclopedia) Bantu languages, group of African languages forming a subdivision of the Benue-Niger division of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian language family (see African languages…
(Encyclopedia) Locke, JohnLocke, Johnlŏk [key], 1632–1704, English philosopher, founder of British empiricism. Locke summed up the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to…
(Encyclopedia) Boone, Daniel, 1734–1820, American frontiersman, b. Oley (now Exeter) township, near Reading, Pa.
The Boones, English Quakers, left Pennsylvania in 1750 and settled (1751 or 1752) in…
