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Encyclopedia: 1885 (7566 words) |
 | Alfonso XII of Spain (November 28, 1857âNovember 25, 1885), was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup détat restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic. |
 | Eduard Kuennecke (born 1885 in Emmerich, died 1953 in Berlin) was a German composer. |
 | Jumbo (1861 - September 15, 1885) was an African elephant, born in 1861 in the French Sudan from where he was imported to France and kept in the old Zoo Jardin des Plantes close to the railway station Gare dAusterlitz in Paris. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Science and the Church (12521 words) |
 | Church, in connexion with science, theoretically means any Church that claims authority in matters of doctrine and teaching; practically, however, only the Catholic Church is in question, on account of her universality and her claim of power to exercise this authority. |
 | The greatest obstacle to anti-Christian science is the Church, which claims Divine origin, authority to teach infallible truth, maintains the inspiration of Scripture, and is confident of her own existence to the end of the world. |
 | The domination of the Church in the Middle Ages and its influence upon the progress of science is a subject that required a different mind from that of a chemist or physicist. |