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The ceremonial mace derives from the mace used as a weapon. The earliest ceremonial maces were practical weapons intended to protect the king's person, borne by the serjeants-at-arms, a royal bodyguard established in France by Philip II, and in England probably by Richard I. By the 14th century, these serjants' maces had started to become increasingly decorative, encased in precious metals. Ceremonial mace - History. The history of the civic mace (carried by the serjeants-at-arms) begins around the m ...

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This article concerns the two antipopes Benedict XIV, claimants to the Papacy during the 15th century. Another Pope Benedict XIV, widely recognized as pope, reigned in the 18th century. Benedict XIV was the name used by two closely related minor antipopes of the 15th century. The first, Bernard Garnier became antipope in 1424 and died ca. 1429. The second, Jean Carrier, became antipope ca. 1430 and appar ...

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A camauro (from the Latin camelaucum, from the Greek kamelauchion, meaning "camel skin hat") is a cap traditionally worn by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Papal camauros are red with white ermine trim and are worn in place of the biretta. Like the biretta worn by lesser clergy and the mortarboard worn by academics, the camauro derived from the academic cap (the pileus), which was originally worn to protect the tonsured head of the clergy. The camauro is thought to ...

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See also the band Colosseum. The Colosseum or Coliseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (lat. Amphitheatrum Flavium), is an amphitheatre in Rome, capable of seating 50,000 spectators, which was once used for gladiatorial combat. Construction was initiated by Emperor Vespasian and completed by his sons, Titus and Domitian, between AD 72 and AD 81. It was built at the site of Nero's enormous palace, the Domus Aurea. The Colosseum's name is derived from a colossus (a 130-foot, or 40- ...

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Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer. He is seen as one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era, and is particularly remembered for the opera Orfeo ed Euridice, the best known part of which is probably the Dance of the Blessed Spirits, a slow, soft melody for flute and orchestra. Gluck was born in Erasbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany to a forester in the service of a nobleman. He studied music and philosophy in Prague from the age of eighteen ...

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The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore — also known as the Basilica di Santa Maria della Neve and Basilica Liberiana in the Italian language and Saint Mary Major Basilica in the English language — is one of five great ancient Catholic basilicas of Rome: the St. John Lateran, St. Lawrence outside the Walls, St. Peter and St. Paul outside the Walls and that of Santa Maria Maggiore. The Liberian Basilica, as it was then called, is one of the tituli, presided over by a patron—in this case Pope Liberius—th ...

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Blood libels were the false accusations that Jews used human blood, especially the blood of Christian children, in religious rituals. In many cases, anti-Semitic blood libels served as the basis for a blood libel cult, in which the alleged victim of human sacrifice was worshipped as a Christian martyr. The first recorded instance was in the writings of Apion, who claimed that the Jews sacrificed Greek victims in the Temple, but there were no other incidents recorded from the ancient Greeks until the 12th century, when blood lib ...

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• Blood libel against Jews - Trentino/Italian Tyrol 1475
• Blood libel against Jews - Spain 1491
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• Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1529
• Blood libel against Jews - Syria 1840
• Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1882
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Canonization is the process of declaring someone a saint and involves proving that a candidate has lived in such a way that he or she is worthy of sainthood. It is currently practised by the Roman Catholic Church and its appendages, by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and by the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Canonization - Roman Catholicism. The process of an individual being declared a saint in the Roman Catholic Church began in the 900s, when the church in Rome demanded that all saints throughout her jurisdicti ...

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1675 - Events. January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim June 18 - Battle of Fehrbellin August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. Cassini discovers Saturn's Cassini Division King Philip's War between the settlers in New England and the indigenous tribes led by Metacomet begins. Including:

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Usury (from the Latin usuria, "demanding in return for a loan a greater amount than was borrowed") was defined originally as charging a fee for the use of money. This usually meant interest on loans, although charging a fee for changing money (as at a bureau de change) is included in the original meaning. After moderate-interest loans became an accepted part of the business world in the early modern age, the word has come to refer to the charging of unreasonable or relatively high rates of interest. Usury - Histor ...

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Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens), was the first member of the Church of Alexandria to be more than a name, and one of its most distinguished teachers. He was born about the middle of the 2nd century, and died between 211 and 216. Clement of Alexandria - Life. He was not born in Egypt (Stromata, i. 1). Athens is named as his birthplace by Epiphanius, and this is supported by the classical quality of his Greek. His parents seem to have been wealthy pagans of some social standing. T ...

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1758 in art 1758 in literature 1758 in music 1758 in science List of state leaders in 1758 List of religious leaders in 1758 1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1758 - Events. April 29 - Battle of the Bay of Bengal - A French fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras. May 21 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French ...

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Benedict commonly refers to: Saint Benedict of Nursia/Italy (fl. 6th century), founder of the Benedictine Order. Pope Benedict XVI, the current Pope Other well-known persons by this name include: Earlier popes: Pope Benedict I Pope Benedict II (see below) Pope Benedict III Pope Benedict IV Pope Benedict V Pope Benedict VI Pope Benedict VII Pope Benedict VIII Pope Benedict IX Pope Benedict X (actually ...

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There were a great many blood libel accusations and trials of Jews until the modern day. Relatively few of them are discussed here. Blood libel against Jews - Alexandria first century CE. The first recorded blood libel against Jews was by the classical Greek author Apion, who claimed that Jews sacrificed Greek victims in their temple. Blood libel against Jews - England 1144. March 20 (Passover), the first blood libel in Europe against Jews. Jews of Norwich were accused o ...

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Blood libel against Jews, Blood libel against Jews - Descriptions of alleged ritual murder, Blood libel against Jews - Actual Jewish practices regarding blood and sacrifice, Blood libel against Jews - Famous instances, Blood libel against Jews - Alexandria first century CE, Blood libel against Jews - England 1144, Blood libel against Jews - Belgium c. 1250, Blood libel against Jews - England 1255, Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1267, Blood libel against Jews - Alsace 1270, Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1286, Blood libel against Jews - Switzerland early 1400s, Blood libel against Jews - Tyrol 1462, Blood libel against Jews - Trentino/Italian Tyrol 1475, Blood libel against Jews - Spain 1491, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1494, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1529, Blood libel against Jews - Syria 1840, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1882, Blood libel against Jews - Bohemia 1899, Blood libel against Jews - Russia 1911, Blood libel against Jews - Kielce 1946, Blood libel against Jews - Modern Blood libels, Blood libel against Jews - In Arab and Muslim nations, Blood libel against Jews - In Russia, Blood libel against Jews - Views of the Catholic Church

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The expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal has been seen (by the Catholic Encyclopedia for example) as a quarrel with the prime minister of Joseph I of Portugal, the reformist and autocratic Sebastian Joseph de Melo, later the Marquis of Pombal. Melo's or Portugal's quarrel with the Jesuits began over an exchange of South American colonial territory with Spain. By a secret treaty of 1750, Portugal relinquished to Spain the contested colony of San Sacramento at the mouth of the Uruguay River in exchange for the Seven Reductions of Para ...

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Alan Alda, movie actor and TV star of M*A*S*H*, Fordham University US; Guillermo Arriaga, Mexican screenwriter (Amores Perros), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. ...

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The year of Jubilee in both the Jewish and Christian traditions is a time of joy, the year of remission or universal pardon. In Mosiac law, each fiftieth year was to be celebrated as a jubilee year, and that at this season every household should recover its absent members, the land return to its former owners, the Hebrew slaves be set free, and debts be remitted (see Jubilee (Biblical)). The same conception, spiritualized, forms the fundamental idea of the Christian Jubilee, though it is difficult to judge how far any sort of c ...

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He is best known for investigations on the length and division of arcs of certain curves, especially the lemniscate; this seems also to have been in his own estimation his most important work, since he had the figure of the lemniscate with the inscription: "Multifariam divisa atque dimensa Deo veritatis gloria", engraved on the title-page of his Produzioni Matematiche, which he published in two volumes (Pesaro, 1750), and dedicated to Pope Benedict XIV. The same figu ...

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Rudjer Boscovich - Early years. Boscovich was born in the Republic of Dubrovnik (Dalmatia, present-day Croatia), an independent republic at the time, as the seventh child of Nikola Bošković, a trader from Herzegovina; and Paula Bettera, daughter of a local noble. Rudjer Boscovich's ethnicity is a controversial issue; he has Italian heritage from his mother's side, while his Slavic heritage is disputed between the Croats who claim him due to the integration of Dubrovnik in the Croatian milieu, and the Serbs who ...

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