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Nahum

(Encyclopedia) NahumNahumnāˈəm, –həm [key], 7th of the books of the Minor Prophets of the Bible. It contains oracles of doom against Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire, delivered by one Nahum of…

Micah, book of the Bible

(Encyclopedia) MicahMicahmīˈkə [key], 6th of the books of the Minor Prophets of the Bible, containing the oracles of the prophet Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah whose career spanned the period c.750–…

Maeterlinck, Maurice

(Encyclopedia) Maeterlinck, MauriceMaeterlinck, Mauricemôrēsˈ mätĕrlăNkˈ [key], 1862–1949, Belgian author who wrote in French. After practicing law unsuccessfully for several years, he went to Paris…

umlaut

(Encyclopedia) umlautumlaut&oobreve;mˈlout [key] [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. In this instance it is the end product of the…

Year 2000 problem

(Encyclopedia) Year 2000 problem,&sp;Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with…

Isaiah

(Encyclopedia) IsaiahIsaiahīzāˈyə, īsāˈ– [key], prophetic book of the Bible. It is a collection of prophecies from a 300-year period attributed to Isaiah, who may have been a priest. Some scholars…

The Koran/Sura LXXXII — The Cleaving

Sura LXXXII — The CleavingMecca — 19 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful WHEN the Heaven shall CLEAVE asunder, And when the stars shall disperse, And when the seas[…

Ke Huy Quan

Ke Huy Quan is the actor whose interrupted career began with the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and continued four decades later with a surprising Oscar win for the 2022 film…