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God bless you (variants include God bless or bless you[1]) is a common English phrase generally used to wish a person blessings in various situations, [1][2] especially to "will the good of another person", as a response to a sneeze, and also, when parting or writing a valediction. [1][3][4] The phrase has been used in the Hebrew Bible by Jews ...
Response to sneezing. In English -speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "[God] bless you", or, less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed bless-you origins for use in the ...
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat. Please [do] put a penny in the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny, [then] a ha'penny will do. If you haven't got a ha'penny, [then] God bless you! Although the lyrics begin appearing in print in 1885 [1] and 1886, [2] they are presented without an author and in a way of cataloging something ...
The Blind Boys of Alabama first sang together in 1939 as part of the school chorus at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind in Talladega, Alabama. [4] The founding members were Clarence Fountain (1929–2018), George Scott (1929–2005), Velma Bozman Traylor (1923–1947), Johnny Fields (1927–2009), Olice Thomas (b. 1926, d. unknown), and the only sighted member, J. T. Hutton (c ...
Pink Shuts Down Rumors Claiming She Deleted Tweets After Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Incarceration: ‘I’m Not Associated With Any of the People Mentioned’
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, Kurt Vonnegut 's fifth novel, was published in 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1] and as a Dell mass-market paperback in 1970. [2] A piece of postmodern satire, it gave context to Vonnegut's following novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, and shared in its success.
Come, Lord Jesus, be our Guest; And bless what you have bestowed. or alternatively, a Moravian translation, Come, Lord, Jesus, our Guest to be. And bless these gifts bestowed by Thee. There are several variations common today for the second line. In English there are other second lines such as "Let these gifts to us be blessed," "Let Thy gifts ...
"God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and revised by him in the run-up to World War II in 1938. The later version was notably recorded by Kate Smith , becoming her signature song .