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Mitnagged

Also spelled  Misnagid (Hebrew: Opponent),  plural  Mitnaggedim, or Misnagidim,   member of a group of tradition-minded Jews who vigorously opposed the mid-18th-century Hasidic movement of eastern Europe when it threatened to encompass large numbers of Jews. Under the leadership of Elijah ben Solomon, called the Vilna Gaon, the Mitnaggedim excommunicated all Hasidic groups from Orthodox Jewish communities. The Hasidim were accused of espousing

Ruyter, Michiel Adriaanszoon De

Employed at sea at the age of nine, de Ruyter by 1635 had become a merchant captain. After serving as

Infection, Social habits

The vampire bats of Brazil, which transmit paralytic rabies, bite cattle but not ranchers, presumably because on the plains of Brazil ranchers are few but cattle plentiful. Bat-transmitted rabies, however, does occur in human beings in Trinidad, where herdsmen sleep in shacks near their animals. The mechanism of infection is the same in Brazil and Trinidad, but the

Stilicho, Flavius

Stilicho was half-Roman, half-Vandal by birth. Making the army his career, in 383 he served

World War I, Naval operations, 1917–18

Since Germany's previous restrictions of its submarine warfare had been motivated by fear of provoking the United States into war, the U.S. declaration of war in April 1917 removed any reason for the Germans to retreat from their already declared policy of unrestricted warfare. Consequently, the U-boats, having sunk 181 ships in January, 259 in February, and 325 in March, sank 430 in April.

Performing Arts, Europe.

In the London ballet world, the Royal Ballet's