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Second Council of Lima
The Second Council of Lima was a Catholic provincial council held in Peru in 1567 and 1568, producing legislation for the Church across Spanish South America.
Second Council of Lyon
The Second Council of Lyon, the Fourteenth Ecumenical Council, met at Lyon in 1274 under Pope Gregory X and decreed a short-lived union with the Greek Church.
Second Council of Nicaea
The Second Council of Nicaea, often called Nicaea II, was the seventh ecumenical council of the Christian church, held in 787 to restore the veneration of icons.
Second Crusade
The Second Crusade (1145–1149), also called the crusade of Quantum praedecessores, was preached by Bernard of Clairvaux after Edessa fell to Zengi; led by Louis VII and Conrad III, it failed at Damascus in 1148 but captured Lisbon.
Second Czechoslovak Republic
The Second Czechoslovak Republic, also called the Second Republic or Druhá republika, was the Czechoslovak state that existed from September 1938 to March 1939, when Slovakia seceded and Germany occupied the Czech lands.
Second degree haemorrhoids
Second degree haemorrhoids (grade II, ICD-11 DB60.1) are internal haemorrhoids that prolapse on straining but reduce spontaneously. Treated first with fiber and lifestyle change, then rubber band ligation; recurrence is more common than after surgery but complications fewer.
Second derivative
The second derivative, or second-order derivative, written f''(x), is the derivative of a function's derivative, measuring how the rate of change itself changes, as with acceleration.
Second Doctor
The Second Doctor is Patrick Troughton's incarnation of Doctor Who's Doctor, 1966-1969, first seen in The Tenth Planet, forced to regenerate in The War Games, and returning in The Two Doctors (1985).
Second Dominican Republic
The Second Dominican Republic (Spanish: Segunda República) is the period of Dominican history from 1865 to 1916, between the restoration of independence from Spain and the first US military occupation.
Second Dynasty of Egypt
Second Dynasty of Egypt (c. 2890–2670 BCE), second Early Dynastic royal house, also called Dynasty 2. Early kings Hetepsekhemwy, Raneb, and Nynetjer were buried at Saqqara; Peribsen and Khasekhemwy closed the dynasty at Abydos.
Second Dynasty of Isin
The Second Dynasty of Isin, also called the Isin II Dynasty or Fourth Dynasty of Babylon, was a native Babylonian dynasty ruling from Babylon between about 1157 and 1026 BC.
Second EDSA Revolution
The Second EDSA Revolution, also called EDSA II or EDSA Dos, was a 2001 mass protest in Manila that removed President Joseph Estrada from office.
Second Empire of Haiti
The Second Empire of Haiti was the monarchical state proclaimed in 1849 when President Faustin Soulouque became Emperor Faustin I; it lasted until a rebellion forced his abdication in 1859.
Second engineer
The second engineer, also called the second engineer officer, is the officer second in command of a merchant ship's engine department, reporting to the chief engineer.
Second English Civil War
Second English Civil War (Feb–Aug 1648): Royalist uprisings and a Scottish invasion to restore Charles I after the First Civil War; crushed by Fairfax and Cromwell's New Model Army, leading to Charles I's execution in January 1649.
Second Epistle of John
The Second Epistle of John, also called Second John, is a one-chapter New Testament letter of 13 verses warning against teachers who deny Christ came in the flesh.
Second Epistle of Peter
The Second Epistle of Peter, also known as Second Peter or II Peter, is a New Testament letter warning against false teachers and scoffers who deny the Lord's return.
Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Second Corinthians is one of Paul the Apostle's authentic letters to the Christian congregation at Corinth, dated about 55–60 CE and a focal point of New Testament textual criticism.
Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, also called Second Thessalonians, is a New Testament letter attributed to Paul, written around A.D. 51 to the church at Thessalonica.
Second Farewell to Cambridge
Second Farewell to Cambridge (再别康桥) is a 1928 lyric poem by Xu Zhimo, the best-known work of the Crescent Moon School of modern Chinese poetry.
Second Federal Republic of Mexico
The Second Federal Republic of Mexico, also known as the Second Mexican Republic, restored federalism in 1847 and was consolidated by the Constitution of 1857 under Benito Juárez.
Second Fitna
Second Fitna (الفتنة الثانية), the second Islamic civil war, c. 680–692 CE: Karbala, Ibn al-Zubayr's rival Meccan caliphate, al-Mukhtar in Kufa, Marj Rahit, and al-Hajjaj's 692 siege of Mecca restoring Umayyad Marwanid rule.
Second Five-Year Plan
The Second Five-Year Plan (Вторая пятилетка) was the USSR's second national economic plan, covering 1933 to 1937 and approved by the XVII Party Congress in 1934.
Second Fleet (Australia)
The Second Fleet was a 1790 British convict convoy to New South Wales whose three transports became the "death fleet" after 267 convicts died at sea.
Second French Empire
The Second French Empire (1852–1870) was Napoleon III's regime, founded after the December 1851 coup, authoritarian until 1860 then liberalizing, ending with Sedan and the proclamation of the Third Republic.
Second French intervention in Mexico
Second French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867), also called the Second Franco-Mexican War: Napoleon III's invasion that installed Maximilian of Habsburg as emperor, defeated by Juárez's republic in 1867.
Second Front Systems (2F)
Second Front Systems (2F) is a venture-backed public-benefit software company in Arlington, Virginia that accelerates delivery of mission-critical software to U.S. and allied governments through its Game Warden platform.
Second fundamental form
The second fundamental form, or second fundamental tensor, is a bilinear form measuring how a surface bends within the space that contains it, introduced by Gauss in 1827.
Second generation of video game consoles
Second generation of video game consoles (1976-1984): microprocessor-based, ROM-cartridge home consoles from the Fairchild Channel F to the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and ColecoVision, ended by the 1983 crash.
Second Gilded Age
The Second Gilded Age, also called the New Gilded Age, is a label for the American era since the early 1980s marked by extreme inequality and concentrated wealth.