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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ambrose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ambrose was elected president; and Palladius, being called upon to defend his opinions, declined, insisting that the meeting was a partial one, and that, all the bishops of the empire not being present, the sense of the Christian church concerning the question in dispute could not be obtained.
Ambrose asks that Christian monies not be used to build a place of worship for unbelievers, heretics or Jews, and he reminds Theodosius that some Christian laity had said of Emperor Maximus, "he has become a Jew" because of the edict Maximus issued regarding the burning of a Roman synagogue.
Ambrose is considered as the first who introduced the antiphonant method of chanting, or one side of the choir alternately responding to the other; from whence that particular mode obtained the name of the "chant," while the plainsong, introduced by St.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Ambrose
Ambrose was descended from an ancient Roman family, which, at an early period had embraced Christianity, and numbered among its scions both Christian martyrs and high officials of State.
Ambrose is pre-eminently the ecclesiastical teacher, setting forth in a sound and edifying way, and with conscientious regularity, the deposit of faith as made known to him.
In Ambrose the native Roman genius shines out with surpassing distinctness; he is clear, sober, practical, and aims always at persuading his hearers to act at once on the principles and arguments he has laid down, which affect nearly every phase of their religious or moral life.
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 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Ambrose, Tommy
Ambrose's variety show was cancelled in 1963 and he went back on the road briefly before realizing he preferred recording better.
Ambrose would hit big again in 1974, this time in the country genre, with "One Summer Song" but television beckoned him once more and he launched the gospel program 'Celebration' on CBC-TV which lasted through the 1975-76 season.
Ambrose hit pay dirt in the '80's with jingle productions and even named his own Toronto jazz bar Jingles, often entertaining guests with variations on a jazz combo with Doug Riley and other pick-up musicians until the bar's closing in 1989.
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 Fleming, Sir John Ambrose - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
FLEMING, SIR JOHN AMBROSE [Fleming, Sir John Ambrose] 1849-1945, English electrical engineer.
He was a leader in the development of electric lighting, the telephone, and wireless telegraphy in England and the inventor of a thermionic valve (the first electron tube).
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