| |
Encyclopedia: 898 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | FACTOID # 154: Of the 8 countries which include the word "democratic" in their long form name, 3 are dictatorships: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
 | | John IX, pope from 898 to 900, not only confirmed the judgment of his predecessor Theodore II in granting Christian burial to Formosus, but at a council held at Ravenna decreed that the records of the synod which had condemned him should be burned. |
 | | Introduced in 1991 and made completely by hand in Kingston, Jamaica, the 898 Cigar Collection is uncompromising in its commitment to quality of construction and ease in smoking. |
| www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/898 (719 words) |