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Banna
Egyptian political and religious leader. He began teaching Arabic at a primary school in Ismailia in 1927. In 1928 he established the Muslim Brotherhood, which aimed at rejuvenating Islam and Egyptian society and expelling the British from Egypt. By 1940 it was attracting students, civil servants, and urban laborers to its ranks. He tried to maintain an alliance with the Egyptian government, but many members saw the government as betraying Egyptian nationalism, and after the war, members were implicated in several political assassinations, incl. that of Prime Minister al-Nuqrashi in 1948. Hasan al-Banna was assassinated with government involvement the next year.


Ramananda
Indian spiritual leader. He lived as an ascetic before settling in Varanasi (Benares) to study Vedic texts and the philosophy of Ramanuja. He was fifth in succession in the lineage of Ramanuja, but his determination to ignore caste distinctions led to a break with the philosopher's other followers. With 12 disciples he founded his own sect, the Ramanandis, who practiced devotion to Rama. His teachings were similar to Ramanuja's, but he dropped the ban on intercaste dining and the strict rule that all teaching and all texts must be in Sanskrit, himself teaching in the vernacular Hindi in order to reach the masses who did not know Sanskrit.


Ravana
In Hinduism, king of the demons. Ravana had 10 heads and 20 arms, and he could fly. He ruled in the kingdom of Lanka, from which he had expelled his brother Kubera. His abduction of Sita and defeat by her husband, Rama, are the central events of the epic Ramayana. The demon king is also remembered for shaking Mt. Kailasa until Shiva intervened and imprisoned him beneath it for 1,000 years. The popular annual Ram Lila festival climaxes with the defeat of Ravana and the burning of huge effigies of demons.


Ravenna
City (metro. area pop., 1996 est.: 137,000), NE Italy. It is located inland from the Adriatic Sea, with which it is connected by a canal. It was the capital of the W Roman empire in the 5th cent. AD and of the Ostrogothic kingdom and Byzantine Italy in the 6th-8th cent. Its art and architecture reflect a fusion of Roman forms with Byzantine mosaics and other decoration; sites include the 6th-cent. basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo and the octagonal church of San Vitale. It became part of the kingdom of Italy in 1861 and today is an agricultural and industrial city, with enterprises that include petroleum and natural-gas refining.


Savannah
City (pop., 1996 est.: 136,000), SE Georgia. Located at the mouth of the Savannah River, it is the oldest city in Georgia and its principal seaport. It was established in 1733 by J. Oglethorpe and was the birthplace of the Georgia colony, the colonial government seat, and capital of the state until 1786. A major Confederate supply port during the Amer. Civil War, the city was the objective of ...

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