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Alcoholism

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The term is understood to include all the changes that may occur in the human organism after the ingestion of any form of alcohol.

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Alcock, John

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Bishop of Rochester, Worcester, and Ely. (1430-1500)

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Alcimus

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High-priest, the leader of the hellenizing party in the time of Judas Machabeus.

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Alchemy

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The art of transmuting baser metals into gold and silver.

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Alcántara, Military Order of

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First committed to the care of the Castilian Knights of Calatrava.

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Alcalá, University of

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Had its inception in the thirteenth century, when Sancho IV, conceived the idea of founding a Studium Generale in Alcalá de Henares.

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Albright Brethren, The

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A body of American Christians chiefly of German descent, founded, in 1800, by the Rev. Jacob Albright, a native of Pennsylvania (1759-1808).

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Albrechtsberger, Johann G.

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Master of musical theory, and teacher of Hummel and Beethoven. (1736-1809)

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Albinus

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A scholarly English monk, pupil of Archbishop Theodore, and of Abbot Adrian of St. Peter's, Canterbury, contemporary of Saint Bede (673-735).

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Albigenses

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A neo-Manichæan sect that flourished in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

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Albi, Juan de

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A Spanish Carthusian of the Convent Val-Christ, near Segovia, date of birth uncertain; died 27 December, 1591.

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Albi, Council of

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Held in 1254 by St. Louis on his return from a Crusade.

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Albertus Magnus, Saint

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Called "the Universal Doctor." Dominican scientist, philosopher, theologian, instructor of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Albertrandi, John Baptist

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A Polish Jesuit, of Italian extraction, born at Warsaw, 7 December, 1731; died August, 1808.

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Alberti, Leone Battista

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Florentine ecclesiastic and artist of the fifteenth century.

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Alberti, Leandro

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Historian, born at Bologna in 1479; died same place, probably in 1552.

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Albert, Saint

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Cardinal, bishop of Liège, martyred in 1192 or 1193.

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