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Booker, Corey Anthony

(Encyclopedia) Booker, Corey Anthony, 1969- , African American politician, b. Washington, D.C., Stanford University (B.A., 1991; M.A., 1992), Rhodes Scholar, ...

Hastings, Warren

(Encyclopedia)Hastings, Warren, 1732–1818, first governor-general of British India. Employed (1750) as a clerk by the East India Company, he soon became manager of a trading post in Bengal. When Calcutta (now Kol...

Kenrick, Francis Patrick

(Encyclopedia)Kenrick, Francis Patrick, 1797–1863, American Roman Catholic churchman, b. Dublin, Ireland, educated in Rome. In 1821 he was ordained priest and went to America to teach in the college at Bardstown,...

Dunn, Oscar James

(Encyclopedia)Dunn, Oscar James, c.1825–71, African-American politician, lieutenant governor of Louisiana (1868–71), b. New Orleans. A former slave, he fought for the Union and joined the Republican party (1863...

Lord's Prayer

(Encyclopedia)Lord's Prayer or Our Father, the principal Christian prayer that Jesus in the New Testament (Mat. 6.9–13; Luke 11.2–4) taught his followers, beginning, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your na...

Marsh, George Perkins

(Encyclopedia)Marsh, George Perkins, 1801–82, American diplomat and scholar, b. Woodstock, Vt., grad. Dartmouth (1820). He was admitted to the bar in 1825 and began practicing law in Burlington, Vt. A member of t...

Sinha, Satyendra Prassano, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur

(Encyclopedia)Sinha, Satyendra Prassano, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur sətĕnˈdrə prəsänˈô sĭnˈhä [key], 1864–1928, Indian statesman. A successful lawyer, he was the first Indian to hold several important a...

Apollinarianism

(Encyclopedia)Apollinarianism əpŏlĭnârˈēənĭzəm [key], heretical doctrine taught by Apollinaris or Apollinarius (c.315–c.390), bishop of Laodicea, near Antioch. A celebrated scholar and teacher, author of...

John of Brienne

(Encyclopedia)John of Brienne brēĕnˈ [key], c.1170–1237, French crusader. He was a count and in 1210 married Mary, titular queen of Jerusalem. Mary died in 1212, and their daughter, Yolande (1212–28), succee...

Tancred, Crusader

(Encyclopedia)Tancred, 1076–1112, Crusader. He became a Crusader in 1096 with his uncle Bohemond I. After distinguishing himself at Nicaea, he struck out into Cilicia and besieged Tarsus, but was deprived of the ...