Verb: laicize (third-person singular simple present laicizes, present participle laicizing, simple past and past participle laicized)

1. (transitive) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.
2. They will laicise each of the schools in the district.
3. (transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman.
4. Due to his controversial views the Vatican decided to laicise the priest.
5. (intransitive) To convert to lay status.
6. The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.

Tara is the name of a fictional plantation in the state of Georgia, in the historical novel Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. In the story, Tara is located 5 miles (8 km) from Jonesboro (originally spelled Jonesborough), in Clayton County, on the east side of the Flint River about 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. Mitchell modeled Tara after local plantations and antebellum establishments, particularly the Clayton County plantation on which her maternal grandmother, Annie Fitzgerald Stephens (1844–1934), the daughter of Irish immigrant Philip Fitzgerald (1798–1880) and his American...

Las palomitas de maíz son un aperitivo salado o dulce elaborado a base de algunas variedades especiales de maíz, por ejemplo el maíz pisingallo.[1]​ == Elaboración == Para su elaboración se utilizan granos de maíz de un tipo especial, los cuales se colocan en una olla o recipiente, y se tuestan (habitualmente friéndolos en aceite vegetal) hasta que ocurra una explosión. Solamente algunas variedades de maíz (una de ellas, llamada maíz reventón o rosetero o pisingallo o la variedad Zea mays everata Sturt) producen el resultado deseado, que es la súbita expansión del contenido del grano que provoca…

Lee-on-the-Solent, often referred to as Lee-on-Solent, is a seaside town in the Borough of Gosport in Hampshire, England, about five miles (8 km) west of Portsmouth. The area is located on the coast of the Solent. It is primarily a residential area, with an upsurge of mostly local visitors in summer, but was also the former home to the Royal Naval Air Station HMS Daedalus (renamed as HMS Ariel from 1959 to 1965). == History == The district gained its name in the 19th century, during attempts to develop the area into a seaside resort. The area had been referenced long before this, referred to as...

The Francization of Brussels refers to the evolution, over the past two centuries, of this historically Dutch-speaking city into one where French has become the majority language and lingua franca. The main cause of this transition was the rapid, yet compulsory assimilation of the Flemish population, amplified by immigration from France and Wallonia.The rise of French in public life gradually began by the end of the 18th century, quickly accelerating as the new capital saw a major increase in population following Belgian independence. Dutch — of which standardization in Belgium was still very weak...

The Russian alphabet (Russian: ру́сский алфави́т, tr. russkiy alfavit, IPA: [ˈruskʲɪj ɐlfɐˈvʲit] or, more traditionally, Russian: ру́сская а́збука, tr. russkaya azbuka, IPA: [ˈruskəjə ˈazbʊkə]) was derived from Cyrillic script for Old Church Slavonic language. Initially an old variant of the Bulgarian alphabet, it became used in the Kievan Rus' since 10th century to write what would become the Russian language. The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters. It has twenty consonants (⟨б⟩, ⟨в⟩, ⟨г⟩, ⟨д⟩, ⟨ж⟩, ⟨з⟩, ⟨к⟩, ⟨л⟩, ⟨м⟩, ⟨н⟩, ⟨п⟩, ⟨р⟩, ⟨с⟩, ⟨т⟩, ⟨ф⟩, ⟨х⟩, ⟨ц⟩, ⟨ч⟩, ⟨ш⟩, ⟨щ⟩), ten vowels...

Anna Mons (Russian: Áнна Монс; 1672–1714) was a Dutch commoner who almost succeeded in marrying Tsar Peter the Great. == Royal mistress == In 1691, during one of his visits to the German Quarter, young Peter I of Russia became enamoured of Anna Mons, the daughter of Dutch wine merchant Johan Mons. His origins were from Westphalia in Germany. Her younger brother was Willem Mons (1688–1724), destined to be the Imperial Chamberlain to Catherine I and Matrena her sister who married Fedor Balk, Major General and Governor of Riga. Her niece was the infamous Natalia Lopukhina (1699–1763) later victim...