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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nicolas Eymeric
Theologian and inquisitor, born at Gerona, in Catalonia, Spain, c.
Nicola Roselli, the grand inquisitor of Aragon, having been raised to the rank of a cardinal (1356), Eymeric was appointed his successor in the Inquisition early in 1357.
Two years later, at the general chapter held at Ferrara, he was chosen vicar of the Dominican province of Aragon.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05735c.htm   (598 words)

  
 Spanish Inquisition
The Inquisition was primarily under the control of the Spanish monarch, with only the Inquisitor General appointed by the Holy See.
Some statistics of large death tolls are given by historians such as Will Durant, who, in, The Reformation (1957) cites Juan Antonio Llorente, General Secretary of the Inquisition from 1789 to 1801, as estimating that 31,912 people were executed from 1480-1808.
However, he points out that the Inquisitors' activities were heavily slanted towards Jewish and Muslim communities who would have suffered far more than most from their activities.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spanish_inquisition.html   (3045 words)

  
 UNIQUE CONFIGURATION IN AUGUST 2003 - TETRAKTYS RESEARCH CENTRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
An animation of the configuration can be found in tools section.
Generally, a dense configuration on the horizon produces rapid change of geographical latitudes, and therefore may be misleading in determining the locations.
On the other hand, configurations occurring in long intervals, such as five hundred years or more, do not indicate a local event or a temporal change, but remarkable turning points in the history.
www.tenspheres.com /researches/aug03.htm   (2335 words)

  
 Israel Commentary: January 2006 Archives
What General Giap of North Vietnam once said of us is even truer today: America cannot be defeated on the battlefield, but it can be defeated at home.
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "General Yaalon has warned with great consistency and detail about the erosion of Israeli deterrent power and the increase in the danger to the lives of Israelis stemming form a policy of unilateral withdrawals and refusal to recognize Palestinian non-acceptance of Israel.
Sharon did, thanks to his reputation as a brilliant military general, his credentials as a lifelong “hawk” on security and the famed tenacity that enabled him to “bulldoze” first his opponents, and then the Israeli communities in Gaza.
www.israel-commentary.org /archives/2006_01.html   (10788 words)

  
 Inquisition: The Spanish Inquisition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It was entirely controlled by the Spanish kings, and the pope's only hold over it was in naming the inquisitor general.
The Spanish Inquisition was much harsher, more highly organized, and far freer with the death penalty than the medieval Inquisition; its
The Spanish government tried to establish the Inquisition in all its dominions; but in the Spanish Netherlands the local officials did not cooperate, and the inquisitors were chased (1510) out of Naples, apparently with the pope's connivance.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0858834.html   (243 words)

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