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The Liber Gomorrhianus ('Book of Gomorrah') is a book authored and published by the Benedictine monk Peter Damian during the Gregorian Reformation circa AD 1051. [1] It is a treatise regarding various vices of the clergy, and the consequent need for reform.
The works of Theopompus were chiefly historical, and are much quoted by later writers. They included an Epitome of Herodotus's Histories (whether this work is actually his is debated), [5] the Hellenica (Ἑλληνικά), the History of Philip, and several panegyrics and hortatory addresses, the chief of which was the Letter to Alexander.
The Society was founded by William Wilberforce following a Royal Proclamation by George III in 1787, the Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice, on the urging of Wilberforce, as a remedy for the rising tide of immorality. [1] [2] The proclamation commanded the prosecution of those guilty of "excessive drinking, blasphemy, profane swearing ...
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (December 4, 1918 [1] – July 23, 2011 [2]) was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality. [3] [4] Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute [5] and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003 served as the groups' president.
Arnobius [a] (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin [1] during the reign of Diocletian (284–305).. According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius, before his conversion, was a distinguished Numidian rhetorician at Sicca Veneria (El Kef, Tunisia), a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa, and owed his conversion to a premonitory dream. [2]
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A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality is a book by the philosopher John Perry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is intended as an undergraduate textbook [ 4 ] and has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Persian and Korean.
By 1939, Lewis's death and legal attacks by the American Medical Association brought the rivalry between Clymer and AMORC to an end. Clymer continued to practice alternative medicine [1] and lead the FRC until his death in 1966, when he was succeeded by his son Emerson Myron Clymer (October 16, 1909 - October 4, 1983). [2] [1]