The first knowledge of Alaska was acquired in 1741 through the expedition under Vitus Bering, a Dane in the Russian service, who sailed from Okhoysk.

Spanish novelist and poet. (1833-1891)

Dominican promoter of the Rosary. (1428-1475)

Architect. (d. 1364)

Benedictine abbot and writer. (d. 1202)

Roman antiquary. (1583-1626)

Mexican statesman and historian. (1792-1853)

Titular see of Phoenicia from 325 to 451.

Monk, poet, preacher, theologian, and eclectic philosopher. (1128-1203)

Theologian. (1549-1624)

A South American diocese, in eastern Brazil, dependent on Bahia.

The substance commonly known as alabaster is a fine-grained variety of gypsum. Oriental alabaster, the alabastrites of the classical writers, is a translucent marble obtained from stalagmitic deposits.

A titular see of Caria in Asia Minor, supposed to be the present Arab-Hissar.

The twenty-second state admitted into the union.

Two famous Greeks of the later Byzantine period.

A city of Upper Egypt, situated on the banks of the Nile.

Comprises the island of Corsica.

Councils were held at Aix in 1112, 1374, 1409, 1585, 1612, 1838, and 1850.

Includes the districts of Aix and Arles (Department of the Bouches-du-Rhône).

King of the Lombards. (d. 756)

In architecture, one of the lateral or longitudinal divisions of a church, separated from the nave by rows of piers, pillars, or columns.

Jesuit Orientalist and Scriptural commentator. (1660-1721)

Diocese in France.