(Encyclopedia) Amana Church SocietyAmana Church Societyəmănˈə [key], corporate name of a group of seven small villages in E central Iowa, clustered around the Iowa River NW of Iowa City; settled 1855…
CHURCH Marguerite Stitt , a Representative from Illinois; born in New York City September 13,
1892; attended St. Agatha School in New York City; Wellesley (Mass.) College,
A.B., 1914 and Columbia…
(Encyclopedia) Graham, Billy (William Franklin Graham)Graham, Billygrāˈəm [key], 1918–2018, American evangelist, b. Charlotte, N.C., grad. Wheaton College (B.A., 1943). Graham was ordained a minister…
(Encyclopedia) Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), sometimes called Campbellites, a Protestant religious body founded early in the 19th cent. in the United States. Its primary thesis is that the…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Posthumous Fragments of Margar...DespairFragment: Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corday 'Tis midnight now—athwart the murky air…
(Encyclopedia) Church, Sir Richard, 1784–1873, British army officer. After varied service, he organized a Greek regiment to defend (1812–15) the Ionian Islands, and in 1827 he was made generalissimo…
Militia officers were so called by Sheridan. The Militia Act enjoined that a list of all persons between eighteen and forty-five years of age must be affixed to the church door of the…
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(Encyclopedia) New Jerusalem, Church of the, or New Church, religious body instituted by the followers of Emanuel Swedenborg, who are generally called Swedenborgians. Knowledge of Swedenborg's…
