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  Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series J:
In 1853 and 1856, there are a few letters about the death of Issac Guion and money owed to him by the government because of his status as a Revolutionary War veteran.
In the census of 1860, William J. Minor was listed with 580 slaves in Ascension and Concordia Parishes, Louisiana, and 42 slaves in Mississippi.
Also included are lists of slaves, accounts of goods purchased, papers from the estate of Stephen Minor, a notebook with notes on grammar, and a fragment of a diary concerning an expedition to visit the Choctaw Indians on behalf of Spanish officials in Natchez.
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.asp   (18528 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Denmark
About the religious life of the clergy and laity we are not sufficiently informed, much historical material having been lost during the later changes in ecclesiastical government.
The royal rescript of 10 June, 1613, which forbade Catholic priests to perform any religious functions, under penalty of death, and the Danske Lov of Christian V (1683), which threatened converts with the confiscation of their property and with banishment, were evidently intended to prevent conversions.
The most important religious poet of the Danish Middle Ages was Michael Nicolai, parish priest of St. Alban's at Odense.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04722c.htm   (10911 words)

  
 Religion and the New Republic (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition)
The principal religious innovation produced by the Kentucky revivals was the camp meeting.
The religious revivals that swept the Kentucky camp meetings were so intense and created such gusts of emotion that their original sponsors, the Presbyterians, as well the Baptists, soon repudiated them.
In 1839 J. Maze Burbank exhibited at the Royal Society in London this watercolor of "a camp meeting, or religious revival in America, from a sketch taken on the spot." It is not known where, when, or under whose auspices the revival painted by Burbank occurred.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/religion/rel07.html   (2599 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: France
The tendency to abstraction,however, which carried away the leaders of the Revolution, is responsible for the present purely arbitrary divisions of the soil, known as "departments".
Again it is important to note the increase in population of the larger cities between the years 1789 and 1901: Marseilles, from 106,000 to 491,000; Lyons, from 139,000 to 459,000; Bordeaux, from 83,000 to 256,000; Lille, from 13,000 to 210,000; Toulouse, from 55,000 to 149,000; Saint-Etienne, from 9000 to 146,000.
Taine has proved that vocations to the religious life increased remarkably in the France of the nineteenth century, when they were entirely spontaneous, as compared with the France of the eighteenth century, when many families, for worldly reasons, placed their daughters in convents.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06166a.htm   (14216 words)

  
 PlYMOUTH MA - ITS HISTORY AND PEOPLE
One of the Separatist congregations was led by William Brewster and the Rev. Richard Clifton in the village of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire.
His History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, first printed in full in 1856, is a minor classic, reflecting the unusual qualities of the man and the values of the small group of English separatists who became known as Pilgrims.
He strove to sustain the religious ideals of the founders and to keep the colony's settlements compact and separate from the larger neighboring colonies.
pilgrims.net /plymouth/history   (1465 words)

  
 Background Notes on Selected Middle Eastern Countries from the Department of State
The chief ruler is a religious leader or, in the absence of a single leader, a council of religious leaders.
The constitution stipulates that this national religious leader or members of the council of leaders are to be chosen from the clerical establishment on the basis of their qualifications and the high esteem in which they are held by Iran's Muslim population.
This leader or council appoints the six religious members of the Council of Guardians (the six lay members--lawyers--are named by the National Consultative Assembly, or Majles); appoints the highest judicial authorities, who must be religious jurists; and is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/MEastBD.html   (21597 words)

  
 International Cooperative Information Center: Famous Co-op People through the Ages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
GJORES, Axel / Circa : 1920s-1950s (Sweden) A leader in co-ops, serving as Gen. Secretary of Kooperativa Forbundet (KF) and on Exec.
His "History of the Rochdale Pioneers" in 1856 was quoted extensively by cooperators in a number of countries as the authority, and provided the principles by which the ICA was to be guided.
Leader of co-ops in Spain - appointed to Chair of Cooperation at School of Social Studies in Madrid; a member of Spanish Inst.
www.wisc.edu /uwcc/icic/def-hist/history/famous.html   (12991 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
In 1778, during the American Revolution, a force of Virginians under the frontier leader George Rogers Clark invaded the region, captured the British garrisons at Cahokia and Kaskaskia, and annexed all the territory north of the Ohio River.
The Democratic party was defeated by an antislavery coalition in the elections of 1854, and in 1856 the coalition merged, forming the Illinois branch of the Republican party.
Chicago was occupied by federal troops; the leaders of the strike were imprisoned for contempt of court.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/illinois.html   (4250 words)

  
 Religious Freedom Page
However, most local Christian leaders and human rights activists say the incident was not a case of religious persecution or discrimination.
An 1856 Ottoman decree still in force requires non-Muslims to obtain what is now a presidential decree to build a place of worship.
In 1952, the government seized approximately 1,500 acres of land from the Coptic Orthodox church and transferred title to the Ministry of Awqaf, which is responsible for administering religious trusts.
religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu /nationprofiles/Egypt/status.html   (1227 words)

  
 African Methodist Episcopal
Allen was the informal leader of the congregation that met there, and in 1799 was ordained a deacon by Asbury, thereby becoming the first ordained fl in the Methodist Church.
Since the Religious Movements Homepage seeks to promote religious tolerance and appreciation of the positive benefits of pluralism and religious diversity in human cultures, we encourage the use of alternative concepts that do not carry implicit negative stereotypes.
Currently, leaders are in the midst of working out ways to rejuvenate and redefine African Methodist Episcopalianism as the church moves into the 21st century.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/ame.html   (2152 words)

  
 Disavowing the Disavowal
Mormon leaders deny reports that the church plans to disavow more than a century of doctrine that denied fls the priesthood because of a curse for their ancestors' actions.
The AP version, already widely distributed on e-mail lists, appears to mew to be spun from this longer version from the front page of today's LA Times' written by Larry Stammer, Religion Editor, a man with, lots of inside sources, shall we say.
Those involved in the internal discussions say church leaders are searching for a formula that will allow them to retract earlier statements without undermining the faith of believers or the credibility of previous church figures whom the Mormons revere as prophets whose pronouncements were inspired by God.
www.ldshistory.net /1990/disavow.htm   (8889 words)

  
 Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church
Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the times of these exercises, and the objects proper for them, according to their own particular tenets; and this right can never be safer than in their own hands, where the Constitution has deposited it.
Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state not because they are beneath the interests of the state, but, quite to the contrary, because they are too high and holy and thus are beyond the competence of the state.
The lessons of religious toleration--a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience--is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated.
www.infidels.org /library/modern/ed_buckner/quotations.html   (18874 words)

  
 Eastern Patriarchates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 544, Jacob Baradaeus (a Monophysite leader) consecrated Sergius of Tella as Patriarch in opposition to the Imperial-backed Orthodox candidate.
During the ascendancy of the Mongols, many notable leaders, including Hulegu (the first Ilkhan), belonged to this church, and though reliable statistics are not available, it is likely that this church, whose remnants today number at most a few million, boasted the largest population of any Christian denomination.
This list is an attempt to reconcile the two lists but dates given before 1700 should be regarded as approximations.
www.hostkingdom.net /orthodox.html   (1948 words)

  
 Guide to the First Methodist Episcopal Church Of Trumansburg Records,1831-1934.
A log church was built and dedicated in 1832, was sold in 1856, and a brick church was built and dedicated in 1857.
The Trumansburg Methodist Episcopal Church was part of the Ulysses circuit and its pastors and class leaders attended the circuit quarterly conference meetings.
Lists local preachers, stewards, class leaders, delegates to District Consociation, apportioning committee for preacher's salary, trustees.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/RMM06066.html   (1213 words)

  
 Polygyny and the LDS church during the 19th century
Yet in problematic areas it may be advisable to err on the side of caution.
I, Joseph F. Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, hereby affirm and declare that no such marriages have been solemnized with the sanction, consent or knowledge of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In spite of the denials, a few such marriages were apparently sealed as late as 1910 for trusted leaders of the Church.
www.religioustolerance.org /lds_poly.htm   (2057 words)

  
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While not known for certain, it is believed that Mikhail Dostoevsky was murdered by his own serfs A serf is a laborer who is bound to the land.
Regardless of what may have actually happened, Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, camel cigarettes 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior.
He became interested in hypnotism and how it could be used to help the mentally ill. He later abandoned hypnotism in favor of free association and dream analysis in developing what is now known as "the talking cure." These became the core elements of psychoanalysis.
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 Accessible Archives | About the Archives
From the beginning, one of the major goals of this newspaper was to educate its subscribers, and much information appeared in a list format including: principal railroads, lengths of rivers, heights of principal mountains, principal colleges in the U.S., and the principal features of various countries of the nations of the earth.
In 1856 she married Thomas F. Carey, of Toronto, and the couple lived in Chatham, Canada, until his death in 1860.
The Christian Recorder embodied secular as well as religious material, and included good coverage of the fl regiments together with the major incidents of the Civil War.
www.accessible.com /about/aboutAA.htm   (1346 words)

  
 AETV.com Classroom Study Guides
Ranging from pacifists to murderers, artists to scientists, the humble to the most powerful, this list includes people from all walks of life who became forces of power, thought, and ideology of the last thousand years.
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) was one of the most influential political leaders of the twentieth century.
Johann Gutenberg (c.1400-1468) differs from others listed in the "top 10" of this millennial list because he did not develop a scientific theory, nor did he produce a large body of scholarly work.
www.aetv.com /class/admin/study_guide/archives/aetv_guide.0277.html   (1622 words)

  
 iranian.com: Guive Mirfendereski, The Saka nomenclature, A Persian appraisal
In addition, the similarity of the names of their leaders Partatua and his son Madyes with and the names Parsua (Persians) and Mada (Medes) suggests perhaps a different affinity on the part of the Saka to reach a region inhabited by Median and Persian groups.
The reference to them and the representation of their leader Skuxa at Behistun (Bisotun) were the earliest reference to Saka in the Achaemenian records as ethnics.
According to the Avestan glossary, hom was a plant with medicinal and spiritual properties (avesta.org) and some have suggested that it was made from a mushroom that grew north of the Oxus (Jona Lendering in Scythians/Sacae on livius.org but the preponderance of research tends to view it as a mixture of ephedra and other ingredients.
www.iranian.com /GuiveMirfendereski/2005/September/Saka   (6190 words)

  
 Uncle Dale's Old Mormon Articles: Misc. Utah Papers, 1850-1856   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The inhabitants of the Territory of Utah, through their authorized agent, desire to address you on a subject wherein you have the power very greatly to assist them, and the importance of which, as an intelligent republican, they are assured you will at once acknowledge the extension of education throughout their Territory.
His religious opinions may be wrong, and his legal or judicial declarations entitled at least to the ordinary respect an examination of all legal questions involving the validity of elections and acts of an executive, legislative and judicial character.
It is believed, by the religious world, that man, both body and spirit, begins to live about the time that he is born into this world, or a little before; that then is the beginning of life.
www.lavazone2.com /dbroadhu/UT/utahmsc0.htm   (13326 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Forged legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Larson spent five years putting together a list, only to quit in frustration that she could not prove forgeries, at least not to her satisfaction.
The only clue he offered was a handwritten, alphabetized list of religious and historical figures he had forged over a five-year criminal career.
Investigators do not believe the list, found in his prison cell after a failed suicide attempt, is complete.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/1,1249,405011503,00.html   (1806 words)

  
 POLI-SCI 101: NOTED CONTRIBUTORS T
An informal contract existed between elected leaders to follow the general will of the majority or lose their position as public servants.
Since its publication in 1956 the mass media and interest groups have been added to the list.
Gorbachev initiates respective political and economic reforms of glasnost and peristroika in the former U.S.S.R. which leads to the end of the Cold War and peaceful coexistence with the U.S..
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 Black Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Born on April 23, 1856 in Columbus, Ohio, Granville Woods was the individual most responsible for modernizing the railroad.
A civil rights leader who urged African Americans to work within the system, Whitney Moore Young, as executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, played a leading role in persuading America's corporate elite to provide better opportunities for African Americans.
He was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington and in 1964 he organized the Community Action Assembly to fight poverty in African-American communities.
www.black-collegian.com /african/aaprofil.shtml   (4892 words)

  
 Leadership
Click HERE for a list of leaders : Governors of Plymouth Colony and Native leaders of the Plymouth area.
Religious matters were the responsibility of the church leaders, although the Court was responsible for declaring days of fasting or thanksgiving.
The other important leader in Plymouth Colony was Myles Standish, the colony’s military captain.
www.pilgrimhall.org /leaders.htm   (305 words)

  
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In an earlier list serve posting, I forgot to type the "u" at the end of her email address.
Highlight the contributions and success stories of Africans and African-Americans during this month, but also "bookmark" the ideas that are submitted to the list serve, and use them throughout the school year.
I know many of you through the list serve, but I have not met some of you in person yet.
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 Hot List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Their historic 130-year-old B'nai Israel Synagogue provides a stunning and inspiring backdrop for comfortable religious services for Jews of all backgrounds.
Traditional, conservative, egalitarian congregation with a wide variety of religious educational and cultural programs for children, young adults, adults, young families and seniors.
Jewish Family Services: Since 1856, JFS has been helping Jews and non-Jews in need of help in personal, family and othe areas.
www.jewishtimes.com /Community   (2197 words)

  
 Religious Education Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In order to accelerate future additions to the collection, individuals and families are invited to sponsor the digital conversion of one or more of the Church publications on this list.
In about July, 1849, The Church leaders shifted away from earlier decisions to petition for a territorial government and began working towards statehood.
The pamphlets were issued separately so they could be circulated as missionary tracts, but it was Pratt’s intention to ultimately gather them together in an exposition of Mormon doctrine.
relarchive.byu.edu /19th/phase_1.html   (3062 words)

  
 Philosophical Egoism: Max Stirner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The end came for Stirner on June 25, 1856, at the age of 49 years and eight months, dying from the bite of a "poisonous fly.'' A number of his former friends hearing of his impoverished condition collected enough money to purchase a second class grave for him.
The standpoint with which one satisfies himself in such histories of the spirit is itself religious, for in it one is content to stop short with Religion, to conceive Religion as a cause of itself.
He would have found that "Christianity" had no history at all and that all the different forms in which it was held at different times were not "self-determinations" and progressive realizations of the "religious spirit," but that they were effected by completely empirical causes quite removed from any influence of the religious spirit.
tmh.floonet.net /articles/carlson.html   (5675 words)

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