(Encyclopedia) PurimPurimp&oomacr;ˈrĭm [key] [Heb.,=lots], Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th of Adar, the twelfth month in the Jewish calendar (Feb.–March). During leap years it is…
Celebration of the Deliverance of the Jews
by Shmuel Ross
Purim Dates (beginning at sundown on the following dates) 2016: March 23 2017: March 11 2018: February 28 2019: March…
(Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Matalban y Merino)actorBorn: 11/25/1920Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico A Mexican native with an easygoing manner, dark-eyed intensity, and a lyrical Spanish accent, Ricardo…
Many children have written books that have been published. One of the first we know about is Francis Hawkins. In 1641, when he was 8 years old, he wrote a book of manners for children called Youth…
Pauline Esther Friedmanadvice columnistBorn: 7/4/1918Birthplace: Sioux City, Iowa Born Pauline Esther Friedman, Van Buren had never written professionally until 1956 when she contacted the editor…
(Encyclopedia) Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams, 1862–1937, American Orientalist, b. New York City. Teaching at Columbia (1895–1935), he was a great authority on ancient Persian religion, language…
(Encyclopedia) Williams, John, 1664–1729, American clergyman, b. Roxbury, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1683. In 1686 he became the first minister at Deerfield, Mass. During the great Native American…
