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Chapter 3.

Historical or political events
3.31.

Names of historical or political events used as a proper name are capitalized.

Battle of Bunker Hill
Christian Era
D-day
Dust Bowl
Fall of Rome
Great Depression
Great Society
Holocaust, the
Middle Ages
New Deal
New Federalism
New Frontier
Prohibition
Restoration, the
Reformation
Renaissance
Revolution, the
American, 1775
English, 1688
French, 1789
Russian, 1917
V-E Day
War of 1812
War on Poverty

but Korean war; cold war; Vietnam war; gulf war

Personification
3.32.

A vivid personification is capitalized.

The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York;

but I spoke with the chair yesterday.

For Nature wields her scepter mercilessly.
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time.
Religious terms
3.33.

Words denoting the Deity except who, whose, and whom; names for the Bible and other sacred writings and their parts; names of confessions of faith and of religious bodies and their adherents; and words specifically denoting Satan are all capitalized.

Heavenly Father; the Almighty; Lord; Thee; Thou; He; Him; but himself; You, Your; Thy, Thine; [God's] fatherhood
Mass; red Mass; Communion
Divine Father; but divine providence; divine guidance; divine service
Son of Man; Jesus' sonship; the Messiah; but a messiah; messiahship; messianic; messianize; christology; christological
Bible, Holy Scriptures, Scriptures, Word; Koran; also Biblical; Scriptural; Koranic
New Testament; Ten Commandments
Gospel (memoir of Christ); but gospel music
Apostles' Creed; Augsburg Confession; Thirty-nine Articles
Episcopal Church; an Episcopalian; Catholicism; a Protestant
Christian; also Christendom; Christianity; Christianize
Black Friars; Brother(s); King's Daughters; Daughter(s); Ursuline Sisters; Sister(s)
Satan; the Devil; but a devil; the devils; devil's advocate