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Joshua Bryan LEE, Congress, OK (1892-1967)

Senate Years of Service: 1937-1943 Party: Democrat LEE Joshua Bryan , a Representative and a Senator from Oklahoma; born in Childersburg, Talladega County, Ala., January 23, 1892; moved with…

Secrets and Lies

Director/Writer: Mike Leigh Director of Photography: Dick Pope Editor: John Gregory Music: Andrew Dickson Production Designers: Alison Chitty and Georgina Lowe Producer:…

John Lewis

John Lewis was beaten nearly to death in Selma, Alabama while marching for voting rights in 1965, and went on to become one of America's most prominent civil rights leaders and a member of the U.S.…

Great Awakening

(Encyclopedia) Great Awakening, series of religious revivals that swept over the American colonies about the middle of the 18th cent. It resulted in doctrinal changes and influenced social and…

Brewer's: Six Points

(See People's Charter.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Six-Principle BaptistsSix Nations A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…

Brewer's: Particularists

Those who hold the doctrine of particular election and reprobation. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PartingParticular Baptists A B C D E F G H I J…

Brewer's: Sabiens

is the Aramean equivalent of the word “Baptists.” (See below.) “The sects of Hemerobaptists, Baptists, and Sabiens (the Mogtasila of the Arabian writers) in the second century filled Syria…

Brewer's: Baptes

(2 syl.). Priests of the goddess Cotytto, whose midnight orgies were so obscene that they disgusted even Cotytto, the goddess of obscenity. They received their name from the Greek verb…