Doctors, Surnames of Famous

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• Surnames of Famous Doctors —     Surnames of Famous Doctors     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Surnames of Famous Doctors     It was customary in the Middle Ages to designate the more celebrated among the doctors by certain epithets or surnames which were supposed to express… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• List of Latin nicknames of the Middle Ages — Doctor Acutissimus Doctor Angelicus …   Wikipedia

• Doctor — • The title of an authorized teacher Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Doctor     Doctor     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Heberden — This interesting and unusual name is of medieval English origin and is a dialectal variant of a locational name Heberden , from a so called lost village once found in Madehurst, Sussex, and last recorded in 1785. It is estimated that there are… …   Surnames reference

• André of Neufchâteau — [André de Neufchâteau, Andrew of Neufchateau, Andrew of Newcastle, Andreas de Novo Castro, Andreas Novocastrensis.] (died c. 1400) was a scholastic philosopher of the fourteenth century. He was a Franciscan from Lorraine, who wrote a number of… …   Wikipedia

• Arora — caste name=Aroras subdivisions= Uttradhi, Gujarati and Dakhna populated states=Punjab region, Sindh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu languages=Hindi, Punjabi, Sindhi and Urdu religions=Hinduism, Islam and SikhismAroras… …   Wikipedia

• United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …   Universalium

• china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …   Universalium

• China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …   Universalium

• Clan of Ostoja — The Clan of Ostoja was a powerful group of Knights and Lords in late medieval Europe. The clan encompassed several families in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, Upper Hungary (Slovakia), Hungary, Transylvania, Belorus, Ukraine and Prussia. The… …   Wikipedia