The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he converted to Roman Catholicism and became its champion. O...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer who wrote in such a variety of genres that he resists simple classification. Previous Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes have examined Chesterton as a poet, a dramatist, a traditional novelist, a myste...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist, essayist, master ideologue of religion and politics, and a seminal figure in the development of the modern detective story, was born on 29 May 1874 in Campden Hill, in the Kensington neighborhood of London. Chesterto...
In The Bible, the New Jerusalem (also called the tabernacle of God, holy city, city of God, celestial city, and heavenly Jerusalem, as well as Jerusalem above and Zion), is a literal (or figurative, depending upon the writer's viewpoint) city that is a...
Israel's Supreme Court is now in a beautiful new building in West Jerusalem's Givat Ram. The building was funded by Yad Hanadiv, a Rothschild philanthropic group. A history of Israel's architecture is given. THE Supreme Court of Israel has moved. Inadequately housed in...
The funeral for Israel's assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a unique ceremony, an occasion of state that became simultaneously an expression of personal grief from Israelis and foreign guests who had known the tough old soldier and admired his leadership as a peacemaker....
