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To address this, he began writing and distributing handwritten, uplifting letters to senior communities. The initiative quickly gained traction as others joined in. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization compiled inspiring stories from older adults and sent uplifting video messages to senior communities. [ 5 ]
A salutation is a greeting used in a letter or other communication. Salutations can be formal or informal. The most common form of salutation in an English letter includes the recipient's given name or title. For each style of salutation there is an accompanying style of complimentary close, known as valediction. Examples of non-written ...
St. Therese Retreat Center is a retreat house and shrine of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus dedicated to Thérèse of Lisieux located on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio. History [ edit ]
The Sword of the Spirit is an international, ecumenical association of Christian communities within the charismatic movement. [3] As of 2017, the Sword of the Spirit is composed of 82 communities, 45 of which are Catholic. [1]
Middlemass was born in Eaglescliffe, County Durham, the son of a shipping company director. [1] He was brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne, and educated in Stockton-on-Tees. [2] He entered the army at the age of nineteen and was wounded in the Dunkirk retreat. [3] He left the army when he was 30 and was by then a lieutenant colonel. [3]
Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life (1904–1909), when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. [ 3 ]
The Heiligenstadt Testament is a letter written by Ludwig van Beethoven to his brothers Carl and Johann at Heiligenstadt on 6 October 1802. It reflects his despair over his increasing deafness , even his contemplation of suicide, and his continued desire to overcome his physical and emotional ailments to complete his artistic destiny.
The son of German-Jewish parents Rear Admiral Edward D. Taussig and his wife Ellen Kneffler, the daughter of Frederick Knefler, Joseph Taussig was Jewish [2] and was born in Dresden, Germany, where his father, a lieutenant (navy) was on special service at the European Station (February 1877 – January 1880). [3]