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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom ...
The "North Dakota Hymn" is the state song of the U.S. state of North Dakota. It was written by poet James Foley at the request of North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Minnie Nielson in 1926 to the tune of "The Austrian Hymn". [2] Dr. Clarence Simeon "C.S." Putnam arranged the music with distinct ragtime syncopation. [3] [4]
Burleigh County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 98,458, [1] making it the second most populous county in North Dakota. Its county seat is Bismarck, the state capital. [2] The county was named for Dakota Territory political figure Walter A. Burleigh.
The Shrine of Our Lady of the Prairies is a traditionalist Catholic shrine in Powers Lake, North Dakota. [1] It was established in the 1950s by Reverend Fredric J. Nelson, who also published the "Maryfaithful" magazine. Father Nelson started a grade school and high school in 1961, and built a retirement home also.
Built in 1885, it is the oldest Icelandic Lutheran church in the United States. The Gothic Revival wood-frame building was built in land donated in 1881 by the pastor Páll Thorláksson, who was influential in establishing the Icelandic American community in the area, and who died in 1882, before its construction. [ 2 ]
January 20, 2009 was a cold day in Washington D.C., with temperatures hovering right below freezing, but an estimated 1.8 million people flooded onto the National Mall to see incoming President ...
Faithful, a British musical drama directed by Paul L. Stein; Faithful, an American crime comedy directed by Paul Mazursky; The Faithful, a Chinese film of 2018 "Faithful" (The Handmaid's Tale), a television episode "The Faithful" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a television episode "The Faithful" , a television episode
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks the removal of a Confederate monument marked as “in appreciation of our faithful slaves” from outside of a North Carolina county courthouse. The Concerned ...