Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cathari, the Patarini, the Albigenses, many another sect denounced as heretical by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. But the heretic Waldensian Church, born of social and religious restlessness in the 12th Century, still exists as the world's oldest evangelical Christian body. It was founded by Peter Waldo, a rich Lyons merchant who vowed himself to poverty, defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible in 1179. Excommunicated along with numerous other heretics in 1184, he attracted a following who believed with him that it was wrong to take oaths or shed human blood, denied with...
...Flickinger, William D. McSweeney, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr., John P. Schwede, Peter G. Zouck, Ray C. Holt, Horace J. Bresler, Robert L. Wright, James I. Rothschild, Clifton E. Helman, Ralph Hornblower, Jr., W. Arthur Betz, William E. McDonald, Alan W. Petit, and Einor C. Palm...
...Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig died at his family home in Darmstadt, Germany, withdrew arrangements for a fashionable wedding but next day pushed through a private, hushed affair. With bridal costumes hurriedly changed to sombre black, the ceremony was performed before 50 sombre guests in London's swank St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square...
...share in the syndicate had been bought by Mrs. Young, who is the sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, the remainder by a lawyer "for the personal holding com-pany of an undisclosed individual." While Wall Street ears tingled to talk that this unknown was either Amadeo Peter Giannini or John Jacob Astor III, in Cleveland the Alleghany Board met to discuss yet more simplification plans...
EVERYDAY THINGS IN AMERICAN LIFE (1607-1776)-William Chauncy Langdon -Scribner ($3). Patterned on Peter Quennell's History of Everyday Things in England and based on the theory that everyday things are more truly, permanently significant than extraordinary things, this book by a well-known director of historical pageants and historian for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. describes the furniture, clothes, houses, dishes, industries et al. of the U. S. Colonial period. Two more volumes are to come. Numerous illustrations and contemporary drawings...