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(Encyclopedia) Disciples of Christ: see Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). ...

(Encyclopedia) Frei Montalva, Eduardo Nicanor āˌᵺwärˈᵺō nēkänōrˈ frā mōntälˈvä [key], 1911–82, president of Chile (1964–70). A lawyer and editor, he was a founder (1938) of the National Falange...

(Encyclopedia) Philetus fīlēˈtəs [key], in the New Testament, Christian denounced by Paul. ...

(Encyclopedia) Narcissus närsĭsˈəs [key], in the New Testament, Roman whose household was partly Christian. ...

(Encyclopedia) Apollos əpŏlˈəs [key], in the New Testament, Alexandrian Jew who became a Christian missionary. ...

(Encyclopedia) Muhlenberg, William Augustus myo͞oˈlənbûrg [key], 1796–1877, American Episcopal clergyman, hymn writer, and philanthropist, b. Philadelphia. He was a great-grandson of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenb...

(Encyclopedia) Birkeland, Kristian or Olaf Christian krĭsˈtyän bērˈkəlän, ōˈläv [key], 1867–1917, Norwegian physicist. From 1898 Birkeland was a professor at the Univ. of Christiania (now Oslo). Noted fo...

(Encyclopedia) Delmedigo, Elijah ben Moses Abba dālmĕˈdēgō [key], c.1460–1497, Jewish philosopher and Talmudist, b. Crete, known also as Elijah Cretensis. He emigrated to Italy as a young man. He studied the ...

(Encyclopedia) Frederick VII, 1808–63, king of Denmark, duke of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg (1848–63), son and successor of Christian VIII. He accepted a liberal constitution in 1849 that ended the absolu...

(Encyclopedia) Linus, in the New Testament, Roman Christian. He is often identified with St. Linus. ...