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Leo Wiener's Africa and the Discovery of America suggests similarities between the Mandinka people of West Africa and native Mesoamerican religious symbols such as the winged serpent and the sun disk, or Quetzalcoatl, and words that have Mandé roots and share similar meanings across both cultures, such as "kore", "gadwal", and "qubila" (in ...
In 1938 MacArthur married his secretary Catherine T. MacArthur (née Hyland), [4] who for decades intimately involved herself in the management of his companies, and after whom his charitable foundation is co-named. John R. MacArthur, the president of Harper's Magazine and son of J. Roderick MacArthur, is a grandson of John D. MacArthur.
MacArthur is the son of J. Roderick MacArthur and French-born Christiane L’Étendart. [1] and the grandson of billionaire John D. MacArthur. He grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, graduating from North Shore Country Day School in 1974. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in history in 1978. In 2017 he was named a chevalier in the ...
John Peter Macarthur FAHA (born 1958) is an Australian architectural historian, critic and academic, based in Brisbane Australia. He is a Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture Design and Planning (formerly the School of Architecture), at the University of Queensland , where he has worked since 1990.
J. Roderick MacArthur (1920–1984), American businessman; John MacArthur (American pastor) (born 1939), American evangelical minister, televangelist, and author; John Macarthur (priest), 20th-century provost of the Cathedral of the Isles in Scotland; John Macarthur (wool pioneer) (1767–1834), Australian wool industry pioneer and Rum Rebel
The MacArthur Topical Bible (1999) Word; The MacArthur Student Bible (2001) Word; MacArthur Daily Bible (2003) Thomas Nelson; The MacArthur Study Bible: New American Standard Version (2006) Thomas Nelson; The MacArthur Study Bible: English Standard Version (2009) Crossway; The MacArthur Study Bible: New International Version (2013) Thomas Nelson
Some scholars look at the linguistic relationships between the myths of different cultures. For example, the similarities between the names of gods in different cultures. One particularly successful example of this approach is the study of Indo-European mythology. Scholars have found striking similarities between the mythological and religious ...
In the 19th century, some scholars began to perceive similarities between Buddhist and Christian practices. For example, in 1878, T.W. Rhys Davids wrote that the earliest missionaries to Tibet observed that similarities have been seen in Christianity and Buddhism since the first known contact was made between adherents of the two religions. [5]