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William Griffith Wilson (November 26, 1895 – January 24, 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) with Bob Smith.. AA is an international mutual aid fellowship with about two million members worldwide belonging to AA groups, associations, organizations, cooperatives, and fellowships of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and ...
Bill Wilson (born 1948) [1] is the founder and senior pastor of Metro World Child, America's largest ministry to children with branches in various nations. He is a well-known speaker, author, pastor and advocate for poor, inner city children all over the world.
“That’s nearly 17,000 people dying from prescription opiate overdoses every year. And more than 400,000 go to an emergency room for that reason.” Clinics that dispensed painkillers proliferated with only the loosest of safeguards, until a recent coordinated federal-state crackdown crushed many of the so-called “pill mills.”
In 1938, Bill Wilson's brother-in-law Leonard Strong contacted Willard Richardson, who arranged for a meeting with A. Leroy Chapman, an assistant to John D. Rockefeller Jr. Wilson envisioned receiving millions of dollars to fund AA missionaries and treatment centers, but Rockefeller refused, saying money would spoil things. Instead, he agreed ...
On June 10th DON'T raise a glass in celebration of Alcoholics Anonymous' 80th anniversary. The international mutual aid fellowship, commonly referred to as AA, was unofficially founded on June ...
He began to beat Rose Wilson with the bat, awakening her sleeping husband Bill Wilson. When Bill came to his wife's defense, Baranyi beat and stabbed him to death. He then stabbed Rose with the knife and went upstairs to kill her daughter, Julia. Before returning to his home, Baranyi took a telephone, a CD player, and a VCR from the Wilson ...
Last year, prosecutors sued Hospice of the Comforter, near Orlando, after it was accused by former employees of signing up patients designated as “Friends of Bob” — people who weren’t dying and thus didn’t qualify for hospice, but were enrolled anyway by then-CEO Bob Wilson in order to boost patient counts and pad executive bonuses.
The Assisted Dying Bill has sparked passionate discussion among Independent readers, with opinions divided over its ethical, practical, and societal implications. When we asked for your views ...