May 23, 2018 · Paul Biya. Considered to be a worldly and educated man, Paul Biya (born 1933) served Cameroon in many positions as a career bureaucrat. When he became president of his west Africa nation in 1982, he acted to create a more efficient government. Over time however, many critics believe Biya's rule has become repressive and ineffective.

The RDPC evolved from the Cameroonian Union. President Paul Biya (1933–), Prime Minister Ephraïm Inoni (1946–), a majority of the National Assembly, and 44 percent of the executive ministers are members of the RDPC. The Front Social-Démocratique (Social Democratic Front), or SDF, is the leading opposition party.

Paul Rusesabagina. 1954— Hotel manager, author, humanitarian. For 76 days in 1994, as the central African nation of Rwanda seethed with genocidal fury, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina sheltered 1,268 people who would otherwise probably have been hacked to death with machetes on the streets outside.

FELIX, MARCUS ANTONIUS Roman procurator of Palestine (c. a.d. 53–60) who held St. Paul a prisoner at Caesarea. Felix was a freedman of Antonia, Emperor Claudius's mother, and a brother of Pallas, Claudius's favorite. Source for information on Felix, Marcus Antonius: New Catholic Encyclopedia dictionary.

Her rich temple served not only as a center of cult and pilgrimage but also as an important bank. Accordingly, it is easy to understand the hostility that St. Paul's successful preaching aroused among craftsmen and others deriving their livelihoods from her cult. Bibliography: l. r. taylor, "Artemis of Ephesus," f. j. foakes jackson and k. lake ...

The 1990s Government, Politics, and Law: OverviewWar, scandal, political reform, terrorism, and civil rights marked the 1990s.

Paula A. KergerPresident and Chief Executive Officer of Public Broadcasting Service Born December 20, 1957, in Woodstock, MD; married Joe.

The more probable explanation is that Paul's being a Roman citizen prevented Felix from treating him as he had others. In 60 c.e. Felix was succeeded by *Festus Porcius, under whom the conflict in Caesarea continued. bibliography: Jos., Loeb (ed.), vol. 9, index; Pauly-Wissowa, 2 (1894), 2616–18, no. 54; Schuerer, Hist, 180, 228–34. [Lea Roth]

May 23, 2018 · Paul Kagame. BORN: October 23, 1957 • Ntambwe, Rwanda. Rwandan president, military commander. Paul Kagame rose up to lead a tiny country in central Africa known as Rwanda following a horrific genocide of Tutsi Rwandans in the spring and early summer of 1994. Genocide is a planned, systematic attempt to eliminate a whole group of people by ...

Still hyperrealistic in their rendition of bodies and objects, artists such as the Belgian Paul Delvaux (1897–1994), the German artist Ernst Fuchs (1940–), and American Paul Wunderlich (1927–) produced paintings of fantastic or imaginary scenes that included highly developed, dream-like images of nude women and overt sexual activity.