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61sabbatical year — 1. Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel. 2. Chiefly Biblical. a yearlong period to be observed… …
62Kai Islands — ▪ islands, Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia Kepulauan Kai , also called Key Islands, Kei Islands , or Ewab Islands island group of the southeastern Moluccas, lying west of the Aru Islands and southeast of Seram, in the Banda Sea. The group,… …
63Moore, George — ▪ Irish writer in full George Augustus Moore born Feb. 24, 1852, Ballyglass, County Mayo, Ire. died Jan. 21, 1933, London Irish novelist and man of letters. Considered an innovator in fiction in his day, he no longer seems as important as …
64Roa Bastos, Augusto — ▪ Paraguayan writer in full Augusto Antonio Roa Bastos born June 13, 1917, Iturbe, Paraguay died April 26, 2005, Asunción Latin American novelist, short story writer, and film scriptwriter of national and international fame. Born in …
65Cistercians — • Religious of the Order of Cîteaux, a Benedictine reform, established at Cîteaux in 1098 by St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme in the Diocese of Langres, for the purpose of restoring as far as possible the literal observance of the Rule of St.… …
66Peoria — • Diocese in Illinois, United States Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Peoria Peoria † …
67Russia — • Geography and history Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Russia Russia † Catholic E …
68Spain — • This name properly signifies the whole peninsula which forms the south western extremity of Europe. Since the political separation of Portugal, however, the name has gradually come to be restricted to the largest of the four political divisions …
69Charles Varlo — or Varley (1725? 1795?), agriculturist, was born in Yorkshire about 1725. Varley held papers pertaining to the failed colony of New Albion. Life He was born in Yorkshire about 1725. He visited Ireland in his twenty first year, spending some time… …
70Miraculous births — are a common motif in historical literature and religious texts. Stories of miracle births often include miraculous conceptions and features such as intervention by a deity, supernatural elements, astronomical signs, hardship or in the case of… …
