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111folk music — 1. music, usually of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition. 2. music by known composers that has become part of the folk tradition of a country or region. [1885 90] * * * Music held to be …
112Hu Shih — /hooh shue / 1891 1962, Chinese scholar and diplomat. Also, Pinyin, Hu Shi. * * * or Hu Shi born Dec. 17, 1891, Shanghai, China died Feb. 24, 1962, Taiwan Chinese Nationalist scholar and diplomat who helped establish the vernacular as the… …
113South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
114Duccio — ▪ Italian painter Introduction in full Duccio di Buoninsegna born 13th century, Siena, Republic of Siena died c. 1319, Siena? one of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle Ages and the founder of the Sienese (Siena) school. In Duccio s… …
115medicine, history of — Introduction the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric and ancient times to the 20th century. Medicine and surgery before 1800 Primitive (primitive culture) medicine and folklore Unwritten history is not… …
116Donation of Constantine — • By this name is understood, since the end of the Middle Ages, a forged document of Emperor Constantine the Great, by which large privileges and rich possessions were conferred on the pope and the Roman Church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight …
117Medici Bank — For the private bank in Austria that failed due to its investment in Bernard Madoff s Ponzi scheme, see Bank Medici. Medici Bank Industry Banking Key people Giovanni di Bicci, Cosimo de Medici, Piero di Cosimo, Lorenzo de Medici, Francesco… …
118ESCHATOLOGY — In general, the term eschatology designates the doctrine concerning the last things. The word last can be understood either absolutely as referring to the ultimate destiny of mankind in general or of each individual man, or relatively as… …
119PESIKTA DE-RAV KAHANA — (Aram. פְּסִיקְתָּא דְרַב כָּהֲנָא), one of the oldest of the homiletic Midrashim. The word pesikta means the section or the portion. The Pesikta de Rav Kahana contains homilies on portions of the Torah and haftarah readings for the festivals and …
120THANKSGIVING PSALMS — THANKSGIVING PSALMS, common designation for one of the dead sea scrolls . It was bought in Jerusalem in 1947 by eleazar lipa sukenik who, from the contents, designated the scroll Hodayot (Heb. הוֹדָיוֹת). Scientifically its registration is 1QH… …
