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Missouri Governor John Ashcroft and First Lady Barbara Bush with a "Parents as Teachers" group at the Greater St. Louis Ferguson-Florissant School District in October 1991. Mrs. Bush (in rocking chair) is reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear to the children. In 1984, his opponent was the Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ken Rothman. The campaign was so ...
John Hale (June 3, 1636 – May 15, 1700) was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated with the witch trials, being noted as having initially supported the trials and then changing his mind and publishing a critique of them.
Tragic Prelude is a mural painted by the American artist John Steuart Curry for the Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. It is located on the east side of the second floor rotunda. On the north wall it depicts the abolitionist John Brown with a Bible in one hand, on which the Greek letters alpha and omega of Revelation 1:8 can be
Boosting endorsement news. John Lamping, a former Republican state senator in St. Louis County, wrote on X that the endorsement heavily favors the candidate with the most money. Every candidate ...
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
April 3: Sarah Cloyce, after defending her sister, Rebecca Nurse, is accused of witchcraft. April 11: Sarah Cloyce and Elizabeth Proctor are examined before Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth and members of the Governor's Council. On the same day Elizabeth's husband, John Proctor, becomes the first man accused of witchcraft and is jailed. [8]
Ogham casting: by Ogham letters; runecasting/runic divination; cometomancy / k oʊ ˈ m ɛ t oʊ m æ n s i /: by comet tails (Greek komētēs, ' comet ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') colormancy/coloromancy: by colors (English color + Greek manteía, ' prophecy ') conchomancy / ˈ k ɒ ŋ k oʊ m æ n s i /: by shells (Greek konkhē, 'mussel ...
“The Amityville Horror” house may still be “haunted” 50 years after the real-life massacre that inspired the book and movies, neighbors and a paranormal expert close to the case claim.