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  Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After 1918 First Republic Catholic leaders such as Theodor Innitzer and Ignaz Seipel took leading positions within or close to the Austrian Government and increased their influence during the time of the Austrofascism—Catholicism was treated much like a state religion by dictators Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg.
Although Catholic leaders welcomed the Germans in 1938 during the Anschluss of Austria into Germany, Austrian Catholicism stopped its support of Nazism later on and many former religious public figures became involved with the resistance during the Third Reich.
The influx of Eastern Europeans, especially from the former Yugoslav nations, Albania and particularly from Turkey largely contributed to a substantial Muslim minority in Austria—around 300,000 are registered as members of various Muslim communities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austria   (3445 words)

  
 Adolf Hitler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The leader of SS Heinrich Himmler tried on his own to inform the Allies with the help of a Swedish diplomat that Germany is prepared to surrender.
As Soviet troops battled their way toward his Reich Chancellory in the centre of the city, Hitler is generally believed to have committed suicide in his Führerbunker on 30 April 1945 in Berlin, Germany by means of a self-delivered shot to the head while biting into a cyanide ampoule.
Bal Thackeray, leader of the right-wing Shiv Sena party in the Indian state of Maharashtra, declared in 1995 that he was an admirer of Hitler.
adolf-hitler.iqnaut.net   (6091 words)

  
 History News Network
Jesuit leaders on Friday announced that their predecessors and the then-leaders of Gonzaga University concocted a false story to explain the sudden departure of Rev. John Leary from the Gonzaga presidency in 1969.
When U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris recently told a religious journal that separation of church and state was "a lie," many critics cited this as another sign she was out of the mainstream.
But, experts say, she was reflecting a common view in religious conservative circles--that the idea of separation of church and state was concocted by 20th-century courts, not the Founding Fathers.
www.historynewsnetwork.com /roundup/41.html   (7327 words)

  
 Roger Hiemstra's Web Page
In addition, learn about some of the history of the May Memorial Unitarian Universalist church in Syracuse, New York, where Sam May was a minister for several years.
There is much there for religious scholars and others interested in the development of a church over a nearly 170 year period.
Learning History by Studying Adult Education Leaders: I 'm working on a "personal vita" project, where the vitas of past and current adult education leaders are displayed in a common format.
www-distance.syr.edu   (1067 words)

  
 Nazi Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Wanting to preserve good relations with the army Hitler, on the night of June 30, 1934, initiated what is known as the Night of the Long Knives, which was a purge of the leadership ranks of the SA as well as other political enemies, carried out by another, more elitist, Nazi organisation, the SS.
After the war, surviving Nazi leaders were put on trial by the Allied tribunal at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity.
By 1938, through the policy of Gleichschaltung, local and state governments lost all legislative power and answered administratively to Nazi Party leaders, known as Gauleiters.
nazi-germany.iqnaut.net   (2821 words)

  
 New Netherland Project Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age.
Zwierlein, Frederick J. Religion in New Netherland: A History of the Development of the Religious Conditions in the Province of New Netherland, 1623-1664.
McFarland, George K. "Clergy, Lay Leaders and the People: An Analysis of Faith and Works in Albany and Boston 1630-1750." Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1992.
www.nnp.org /project/bibliography.html   (6129 words)

  
 Marburg Journal of Religion (July 1999) Marco Frenschkowski
Many of his yarns touch religious aspects of man: his desire for transcendence and immortality, his struggle for happiness and freedom, his fascination with the starry heavens, his wonder about his own future.
None of this fiction is "religious" in a traditional sense of the word, nevertheless is deserves some attention in the light of his later developments.
This contribution is part of an ongoing project of research into the exact relationship between artificial mythologies, fantastic and supernatural literature, religious traditions and the late 20th.
web.uni-marburg.de /religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/frenschkowski.html   (9492 words)

  
 Strange Science: Timeline
This (by no means comprehensive!) list chronicles some of the major events in the history of paleontology and biology.
1555-The first edition of Alessio Piemontese's Secreti is published, listing about 350 medical recipes along with observations of nature.
Permission is denied, but he will publish Men Before Adam anonymously 14 years later, inciting both outrage and mild amusement among religious leaders.
www.strangescience.net /timeline.htm   (11851 words)

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