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  Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:PUBLIC SQUARE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The "Original Plan of the Town and Village of Cleaveland," prepared in 1796 by the CONNECTICUT LAND CO., called for a 9.5-acre public square bisected by 2 wide streets, Superior and Ontario.
In 1857 Superior and Ontario streets were truncated at Public Square, and a white double-railed fence enclosed the grounds, which were landscaped (see FENCE WAR OF PUBLIC SQUARE).
Public Square was the site of the first successful demonstration of electric streetlights on 29 Apr. 1879 (see CHAS.
ech.cwru.edu /ech-cgi/article.pl?id=PS6   (316 words)

  
 Tiananmen Square. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
large public square in Beijing, China, on the southern edge of the Inner or Tatar City.
The square, named for its Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tiananmen), contains the monument to the heroes of the revolution, the Great Hall of the People, the museum of history and revolution, and the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall.
Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic in the square on Oct. 1, 1949, an anniversary still observed there.
www.bartleby.com /65/ti/Tiananme.html   (257 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Tiananmen Square, East Asia, East Asia (East Asian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
Tiananmen Square, large public square in Beijing, China, on the southern edge of the Inner or Tatar City.
A massive demonstration for democratic reform, begun there by Chinese students in Apr., 1989, was brutally repressed on June 3 and 4.
The demonstrators were joined by workers, intellectuals, and civil servants, until over a million people filled the square.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tiananme.html   (323 words)

  
 Books about Religious Conservatism in the United States
Thomas Patrick Melady and Mary Cunningham Agee, eds, Catholics in the Public Square: The Role of Catholics in American Life, Culture, and Politics, Our Sunday Visitor, 1995.
Richard John Neuhaus, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, second edition, Eerdmans, 1986.
Robert Wuthnow, Producing the Sacred: An Essay on Public Religion, University of Illinois Press, 1994.
polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/right.html   (8575 words)

  
 Franklin Square Public Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Long Island Union List of Serials includes the holdings of public, academic and special libraries in Nassau and Suffolk counties as well as the holdings of the School Library Systems.
www.nassaulibrary.org /fsquare/onlnedb.htm   (992 words)

  
 Sample Chapter: Christians in the Public Square
Sample Chapter: Influence of Religion on Law ] [ Sample Chapter: Christians in the Public Square ] [
See John Warwick Montgomery, The Marxist Approach to Human Rights: Analysis and Critique(Edmonton: Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy, 1997).
An example of particularly muddy thinking in this area is the Law Reform Commission of Canada's Working Paper 58, Crimes Against the Foetus (Ottawa, 1989).
www.ciltpp.com /cha_pubs.htm   (4426 words)

  
 Acknowledgments--About Us--ReligionSource
The American Academy of Religion thanks the Lilly Endowment Inc., The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and The Pew Charitable Trusts; the Religionsource founding advisory board, consultants, research assistants and data assistants; and the many scholars and journalists who graciously suggested ways to improve Religionsource.
Drew Smith, director, Public Influences of African-American Churches, Morehouse Coll.
Scott Thumma, chair, Publicity Committee, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
www.religionsource.org /Contents/AboutUsAcknowledgements.aspx   (762 words)

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