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- 481: The Colorado River
- ... River help or hinder settlement in the Western United States? As settlers began to move westward, the Southwest was considered to be a place to avoid. Few considered it a place to traverse, to spread Christianity, and a possible source of furs or mineral wealth. Finding a reliable or accessible water source, and timber for building was difficult to find. There was a lack of land that could be irrigated easily ...
- 482: David Livingstone
- ... world has ever produced. Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, Edmund Hillary, and Neil Armstrong all have thrilled the world with their exploits. Add the name of Livingstone who opened up Africa to civilization and Christianity. No wonder the natives gave him the longest funeral procession in history, after burying his heart under a tree near the place where he died. Livingstone traveled 29,000 miles in Africa, added to the ...
- 483: Oral Roberts
- ... and tired of being poor. He began to believe that his parents religion was a roadblock to his ambitions. He resented the fact that his parents made him attend church and Sunday school. To him Christianity seemed repressive and confining, he ran away to get away from the lord. When Oral moved to the new school there was new success. He was elected class president, he was a honor student, editor ...
- 484: The Life of Jackie Robinson
- ... the spirituality that Jackie shared with Rickey would help them both. The fact that Jackie got on his knees every night to pray for self-control is not a well known aspect of his devout Christianity. (Stealing Home) Although Jackie's struggle began as soon as he put on the Dodger's uniform, Jackie became an over night success. He batted for the first time ever for the major leagues on ...
- 485: Van Gogh
- ... The Family Bible" which he painted just before leaving his house for good, six months after his father's death in 1885, must have meant a great deal to him. Van Gogh had broken with Christianity when he was fired from the missionary which proved to be the most painful experience of his life, and one from which he never quite recovered. At Nuenen, van Gogh gave active physical toil a ...
- 486: Observing Persuasion In The Ne
- ... of Eastern and metaphysical beliefs, (MacLeans, p. 460). As Will Baron discovered, the more involved he became in the little group with which he was meditating, the more they gravitated towards a form of Christianity (Baron, 1990). At one point, the leader, who had led them up to that point to study the teachings of many spiritual leaders, including but not limited to Jesus Christ, all of a sudden told ...
- 487: Nicholas Ferrar
- ... READING: Ecclesiasticus 44:1-10,13-14 ("Let us now praise famous men...."; a commemoration of patriarchs,... A History Of The Church In England, J.R.H.Moorman, Morehouse Publishing copyright 1980 The Story Of Christianity, Justo L Gonzalez, Harper Collins Publishers copyright 1984 The Episcopal Church, David Locke Hippocrene Books, New York copyright 1991
- 488: Barbados
- ... of Barbados is Queen Elizabeth II and she is represented by General Dame Nita Barrow. The total population of the country is around 252,000. The main language is English and the predominant religion is Christianity. Their date of independence was November 30, 1966. Barbados is the eastern most Caribbean Island. It is about 200 miles North-North East of Trinidad and about 100 miles East-South East of St. Lucia ...
- 489: Japan
- ... and Kyoto were where Buddhism put down its first Japanese roots, and it includes some of Japan's most sacred Shinto structures. Majority of Japanese are Shinto, only 1 percent of the population subscribed to Christianity.(4, p.245). While examples of the world's oldest most beautiful and most valuable architecture and artifacts are to be found in Kansai, the region also includes such modern, cosmopolitan communities as Kobe. Its ...
- 490: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
- ... study of Works and the Creatures of God" (Bacon, 436). Wonder at religious questions was natural, but, permitted free reign, would destroy science by absorbing the minds and concerns of men. The singular advantage of Christianity is its irrationality. The divine soul was a matter for religion to handle. The irrational soul was open to study and understanding by man using the methods of science. The society of the NEW ATLANTIS ...
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