Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early Christians were persecuted for meeting to worship, so by shifting the observance of Christ's birthday to the end of December to coincide with the Roman Saturnalia festivals they could mask their reason for celebrating...
...Roman Pucinski: The Polish alderman...
...kept pace with series plans for Seventh Avenue, by Norman Bogner, and Wheels, by Arthur Hailey. Not resting on its ratings, ABC has hired Roots Producer Stan Margulies for a ten-hour version of Hawaii, by James Michener. Washington, a series based on John Ehrlichman's roman a clef, The Company, has already gone before the cameras with Actors Jason Robards and Robert Vaughn...
...openings, mostly in the Third World, where opposition to missionary work in some areas is still intense. The new Mission Handbook, to be published by World Vision this month, reports that there are now an all-time high of 35,698 Protestant missionaries from the U.S. (v. 7,010 Roman Catholic ones), and that church members' annual giving to mission boards totals $633 million, a 60% jump in three years. Though several denominations such as the Episcopal, United Methodist and United Presbyterian Churches have been trimming their missionary work, the Evangelical movement clearly treats overseas missions as a growth...
...hardly the here. Amis has rejiggered the present according to a formula beloved by armchair historians and sore losers: What would have happened if? In the case of The Alteration, the "if is the Reformation: it did not happen. Instead, Martin Luther accepted a compromise with the Roman...