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(Encyclopedia) Inver Grove Heights, city (2020 pop. 36,092), Dakota co., SE Minn. A suburb of St. Paul, its manufactures include motor-vehicle and aircraft parts, asph...

(Encyclopedia) Euroclydon yûrˌəklīˈdŏn [key], in the New Testament, east or northeast storm wind that caused Paul's shipwreck on Malta. ...

(Encyclopedia) Eutychus yo͞oˈtĭkəs [key], in the New Testament, young man whom Paul raised from the dead. ...

(Encyclopedia) Lydia lĭdˈēə [key], in the New Testament, Christian convert at whose house in Philippi Paul stayed. She was from Thyatira. ...

(Encyclopedia) Claudius Lysias lĭsˈēəs [key], in the Acts of the Apostles, official at Jerusalem who saved Paul from the mob. ...

(Encyclopedia) Euodias yo͞oōˈdēəs [key], in the New Testament, Philippian Christian urged by Paul to be reconciled with Syntyche. ...

(Encyclopedia) Craigie, Sir William A., 1867–1957, British lexicographer, b. Dundee, Scotland. Educated at the Univ. of St. Andrews, Craigie studied Scandinavian languages at Copenhagen before beginning in 1893 hi...

(Encyclopedia) Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart), 1907–92, British legal philosopher. A lawyer and trained philosopher—he was a legal positivist—Hart subjected legal concepts to scrutiny in such wo...

(Encyclopedia) Adramyttium ădˌrəmĭtˈēəm [key], place, the modern Edremit, NW Turkey. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul's ship was built here. ...

(Encyclopedia) Mark, Saint [Lat. Marcus], Christian apostle, traditional author of the 2d Gospel (see Mark, Gospel according to). His full name was John Mark. His mother, named Mary, had a house in Jerusalem, which ...