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More than 10 million people (one-fifth of the U.S. population) visited the Exposition, and nearly all of them would have seen the statue. [13] Millions more experienced it through illustrations and photographs. Although its formal name was "The American Soldier", [14] the statue soon became popularly known as "The American Volunteer". The ...
Pages in category "American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 494 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
Alexander William Doniphan (July 9, 1808 – August 8, 1887 [2]) was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, at the close of the 1838 Mormon War in that state.
The volunteers served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848. [3] The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 [4] [5] and 559 [6] [Note 1] Latter-day Saint men, led by Mormon company officers commanded by regular United States Army officers.
Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu ʁedẽˈtoʁ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.
The statue earned the nickname ‘Christ with a ball.’ In the end, after surveying the land, a design was decided upon of Christ with his arms wide open in an Art Deco style.” View this post ...
Built in 1922 by the Catholic Church, the Christ the Redeemer statue is inside the Tijuca National Park, a sprawling 3,953-hectare expanse of restored Atlantic Forest recognized as one of the ...
The church requests that the official name be used when possible or, if necessary, shortened to "the Church" or "the Church of Jesus Christ". [194] In August 2018, church president Russell M. Nelson asked members of the church and others to cease using the terms "LDS", "Mormon" and "Mormonism" to refer to the church, its membership, or its ...