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Most animals never even see their parents! Many never meet their fathers and some never meet their mothers, either. Some insects, fish, amphibians and reptiles hatch from fertilized eggs and face…
(Encyclopedia) prodigal son, in the New Testament, parable of Jesus about heaven and the sinner who repents. A young man leaves home and becomes a wastrel; repentant, he returns to be received with…
Mongan, Marie
(Encyclopedia) Mongan, Marie, 1933-2019, American natural childbirth advocate, b. San Diego, Ca., as Marie Madeline Flanagan, Plymouth State Univ. (B…
(Encyclopedia) Erikson, Erik, 1902–94, American psychoanalyst, b. Germany. As a young man he traveled throughout Europe. He became a teacher in a Vienna private school and trained as a psychoanalyst…
Those Quotable Irish
John Millington Synge, W.B. Yeats, and others
Compiled by David Johnson, Ann Marie Imbornoni, and Borgna Brunner
The Irish have always been…
young-adult novelistBorn: May 15, 1931Died: October 17, 2009 (Vermont, USA) Best Known as: Young-adult novelist Norma Fox Mazer was best known has a young-adult…
(Encyclopedia) TobitTobittōˈbĭt [key] [Gr. from Heb. Tobijah=God is my good], book of the Old Testament Apocrypha, not included in the Hebrew Bible. It is the account of Tobit, a devout Jew in exile…
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