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Adam Pastor

Adam Pastor was born Roelof Martens or Martin, at Dörpen, Westphalia, and was a Catholic priest at Aschendorf till 1533 when he joined the peaceful wing of the Anabaptists.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Hrdlička put prominent eugenicist Charles Davenport on the journal's editorial board, and used his connection to the racist and anti-immigrant Madison Grant to obtain funding for his new journal.

Andreas Räss

André Raess (German: Andreas Räss) (6 April 1794, Sigolsheim, Haut-Rhin - 17 November 1887, Strasbourg) was an Alsatian Catholic Bishop of Strasbourg.

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions (APMSS) of Poole, Dorset, England is a British company established in 2008.

Anti-clerical art

Masami Teraoka is among the contemporary painters producing anti-clerical art.

Anti-communist mass killings

In 1963, a coup in Iraq overthrew Abd al-Karim Qasim, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Hashemite Iraqi monarchy.

Anti-graffiti coating

Both the National Park Service and English Heritage advise against the use of anti-graffiti coatings and promote the exercise of caution when they are applied to historic buildings and monuments.

Anti-pattern

Silver bullet: Assuming that a favorite technical solution can solve a larger process or problem

Anti-Structures Munition

The Anti-Structures Munition is a developmental program for the British Army to provide a man-portable shoulder-launched weapon capable of destroying hardened structures such as buildings or bunkers.

Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium

The Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium is the holder of a diplomatic position within the Catholic Church, who acts as Ambassador of the Holy See to the Belgium.

Apple Creek, Missouri

In the early 1820s German Catholic immigrants from the Baden area were the first to settle Apple Creek.

Ben Webb

Benjamin Joseph Webb (1814–1897), Catholic editor, senator and historian

Bernard Faÿ

Despite his anti-Semitism, Faÿ, who was suspected to be a Gestapo agent for much of the occupation, protected Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

Chen Duxiu

In the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the example of Chen in collaborating with Wang Jingwei's Wuhan government, leading to the ostracism of his peers and the failure of Communist policies at the time, was used by Peng Zhen as a warning never to "forgive" anti-Maoists.

David Markson

The movie Dirty Dingus Magee, starring Frank Sinatra, is based on Markson's anti-Western, The Ballad of Dingus Magee.

Donna Haraway

Haraway's father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background, died when she was 16 years old.

Downtown College Prep

The school received considerable help in its formation from Father Mateo Sheedy, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic church, and its advisory board and eventual board of trustees included then-mayor of San Jose Ron Gonzales, Robert Caret, then-president of San Jose State, Tony Ridder, CEO of Knight Ridder, then headquartered in San Jose, and Greg Jamison, president of the San Jose Sharks hockey team.

Ed Krebs

Krebs also plays guitar, bass and organ in several reggae bands, and is the webmaster of HERB (Had Enough Religious Bullshit), a site for anti-Theocracy and anti-religious humor with particular emphasis on cartoons.

Edward and Henry Schnell

While travelling in an open coach through Edō in September 1867 the brothers were attacked by anti-foreign samurai from Numata, who, by drawing his sword, in a private vendetta was trying to enforce the Sonnō jōi policy.

Egon Wolff

The formation of the Teatro Experimental de la Universidad de Chile (Experimental Theatre of the University of Chile) in 1941, followed by the founding of the Teatro del Ensayo de la Universidad Catolica (TEUC) (Theatre Actor Studio of the Catholic University) in 1943 created a qualitative change in Chilean theatre.

Elkan Naumburg

Naumburg was born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, in 1835, and emigrated with his parents to the United States at age 15 to escape the growing anti-Semitism of his native land.

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.

Frank Burton Ellis

The Presbyterian Ellis even vowed to go to Rome to plead with Pope Paul VI to order such shelters in the basement of every Catholic church.

Fryburg, Ohio

Fryburg is well known for its annual Homecoming Festival, held the Sunday before Labor Day at St. John's Roman Catholic Church.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

George W. Lay

Lay was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third Congress and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837).

Helene Raynsford

Raynsford was appointed to UK Anti-Doping's newly formed Athlete's Committee along with Paralympic swimmer Graham Edmunds, football player Clarke Carlisle and former England rugby union captain, Martin Corry.

History of the Jews in Belgium

Also he described an increase of 30% in the number of anti-Semitic incidents including physical assaults and vandalism of Jewish institutions, and a suggestion of the Belgian Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck of the ruling Christian Democratic Party of an amnesty for Nazi collaborators in 2011.

Human trafficking in Bolivia

The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.

Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory

This character is a tongue-in-cheek reference to anti-videogame parental activism groups, and the name is a reference to Agnes Chan.

Italian support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war

Iraq ordered four Lupo class frigates, and six Wadi Assad class corvettes equipped with Otomat-2 anti-shipping missiles.

Jack Marx

In 1999, he became editor of Australian Style, causing controversy when he assigned accused anti-Semite author Helen Darville to interview British Holocaust denier David Irving.

Lakeshore Catholic High School

In addition to this the Lakeshore Catholic Concert and Jazz bands are always ranked highly at festivals and competitions, the most recent of which is the attaining of a Gold level Standing in the regional Golden Horseshoe Festival and A Silver standing at the National MusicFest Canada Competition.

Lasata

Jackie's father John Vernou Bouvier III married Janet Norton Lee at St. Philomena's Catholic Church in East Hampton on July 7, 1928.

Leo Brent Bozell

L. Brent Bozell, Jr. (1926–1997), American conservative activist and Catholic writer

Linking and intrusive R

Other recognizable examples are the Beatles singing: "I saw-r-a film today, oh boy" in the song "A Day in the Life", from their 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, at the Sanctus in the Catholic Mass: "Hosanna-r-in the highest" and in the phrases, "Law-r-and order" and "Victoria-r-and Albert Museum".

Lubocza, Kraków

In 1928 came (for the metropolitan councils of Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha) Norbertine sisters, to give children a free, Catholic education.

Manuel Candamo

One of them, Teresa De La Cruz, founded the convent Canonesas de La Cruz, and was given the title of Servant of God in 1981 by the Catholic Church, which means her life is being studied in order to eventually grant her the title of Saint.

Marshall Formby

The other contestants were sitting Governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., who sought an unprecedented fourth two-year term; Don Yarborough, a liberal lawyer and supporter of organized labor from Houston; former Attorney General Will Wilson, later a Republican convert, and retired Army General Edwin A. Walker, known for his staunch anti-communism.

Masindi

As capital of Bunyoro, Masindi was visited by Samuel Baker, a British explorer and anti-slavery campaigner, from 25 April 1872 to 14 June 1873.

Monitum

On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White.

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Sacred Heart Malankara Catholic Church, Mylapra

Sacred Heart Malankara Syrian Catholic Church or referred as S H Church is located in the village of Mylapra, near Pathanamthitta on the road side of the Main Eastern Highway in the Indian state of Kerala.

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King

For anti-ship duties some models were outfitted to carry one or two missiles, typically Sea Eagles or Exocets.

Stéphane Lupasco

(Lupasco unfortunately did not read English well, and hence no references to the “anti”-psychiatry of Laing and Bateson, close in spirit to his work, are to be found.)

Tigilau Ness

In 2008, Ness featured with his son Che Fu in the documentary Children of the Revolution about the children of political activists in New Zealand which also included Māori activist Tame Iti, Māori Party Member of Parliament Hone Harawira, Green Party Member of Parliament Sue Bradford and anti-apartheid leader John Minto.

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

Tristam Burges

Burges was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1835).

Urban anthropology

Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that traditional anthropologists were "a notoriously agoraphobic lot, anti-urban by definition".

Wadi al-Qarn – Burqush Important Bird Area

It lies at an altitude of 1,175 – 1,500 m next to the village of Burqush in the Anti-Lebanon mountains, near Mount Hermon and close to the border with Lebanon.


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Algernon Thelwall

An anti-Catholic, he was active on behalf of the Protestant committee opposing the Maynooth Grant in 1845.

Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby

Although anti-Catholic feeling had subsided a good deal, it flared up again due to the fake Popish Plot of 1678; this followed a false testimony from Titus Oates in which he claimed there was a conspiracy to instal a Catholic king, and he managed to ferment a renewed and fierce persecution of English Catholics.

Giorgio Biandrata

She had been instrumental in the burning (1539) of Catharine Weygel, at the age of eighty, for anti-trinitarian opinions; but the writings of Ochino had altered her views, which were now anti-Catholic.

Grand Remonstrance

It was strongly anti-Catholic in tone, taking the side of the Puritan party in the English church in opposition to William Laud, whom Charles had appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633 and who, by implication, was therefore placed at the heart of the Catholic plot.

Guy Fawkes Night

Author Martin Kettle, writing in The Guardian in 2003, bemoaned an "occasionally nannyish" attitude to fireworks that discourages people from holding firework displays in their back gardens, and an "unduly sensitive attitude" toward the anti-Catholic sentiment once so prominent on Guy Fawkes Night.

Imperial ban

The imperial ban imposed by the Emperor Rudolf II on the city of Donauwörth after an anti-Catholic riot was one of the incidents leading to the Thirty Years' War.

John J. O'Kelly

Sceilg was also explicitly hostile to the Spanish Republic declared in 1931, believing it to be anti-Catholic and supported by pro-British Freemasons.

Joy to Great Caesar

D'Urfey's friend Joseph Addison later claimed that the success of the song so damaged the political prospects of the Whigs that they never recovered during the reign of Charles II, and that by using the music of the Catholic composer Farinelli for his anti-Catholic lyrics, D'Urfey had turned a considerable part of the Pope's music against himself.

Mazzarino Friars

Despite the public prosecutor quickly managed to gather many unquestionable evidence and accounts about the role of the friars, clerical supporters (mostly linked to the Democrazia Cristiana Church and other Catholic institutions), led by the Palermo Archbishop Ernesto Ruffini, promptly stated that the friars were innocent victims of a trap by anti-Catholic forces.

Philip Hamburger

Justice Hugo Black, who served on the Supreme Court 1937 to 1971, came under attack from Hamburger who argues that Black's views on the need for separation of Church and State were deeply tainted by prominent roles in the Ku Klux Klan, a vehemently anti-Catholic organization.

Ralph Ovadal

Vehemently anti-Catholic, he openly calls the pope "antichrist," and led protests in front of movie theaters showing Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ.

Renée Cox

The image sparked an enormous controversy when Rudy Giuliani, then mayor of New York City, saw the work and proceeded to accuse Cox of being anti-Catholic.

The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice

The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice is a book written by Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, dealing with contemporary anti-Catholic bigotry, particularly in the United States.

The Pope and the Witch

In October 2006, top Catholic leaders in the Midwestern U.S. state of Minnesota took the rare step of collectively calling on University of Minnesota president, Robert Bruininks, to reconsider the university's plan to stage a controversial play which they viewed as anti-Catholic.

The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance

The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance is an anti-Catholic pamphlet written by British politician William Ewart Gladstone in November 1874.