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The Bulwark Podcast is a news, opinion and interview show hosted by Tim Miller. The podcast is released every weekday and published in audio and video form. [17] Until February 2024, the podcast was hosted by Charlie Sykes. [18] The show launched on December 21, 2018. [19]
Penn guaranteed the settlers of his colony freedom of religion. He advertised the policy across Europe so that Quakers and other religious dissidents would know that they could live there safely. On November 10, 1681, Robert Wade established the first Monthly Meeting in the colony at his home, which eventually became the Chester Monthly Meeting.
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
The Shakers were one of a few religious groups which were formed during the 18th century in the northwest of England; [4]: 1–8 originating out of the Wardley Society. James and Jane Wardley and others broke off from the Quakers in 1747 [ 5 ] : 20 [ 6 ] : 105 at a time when the Quakers were weaning themselves away from frenetic spiritual ...
Roads of Tennessee in 1795. European settlers began arriving in the Watauga, Nolichucky, and Holston river valleys in the late 1760s and early 1770s, most migrating from Virginia via the Great Valley, although a few were believed to have been Regulators fleeing North Carolina after their defeat at the Battle of Alamance.
Many of these colonists later moved to the more successful colony in Argentina as part of Y Wladfa ("The Colony"). The best known of the Welsh colonies, the colony in the Chubut Valley of Patagonia known as Y Wladfa Gymreig ("The Welsh Colony"), was established in 1865 when 153 settlers landed at what is now Puerto Madryn .
The Antemurale myth or the Bulwark myth is one of the nationalist myths which implies a certain nation's mission of being a bulwark against the other religions, nations or ideologies. The word "Antemurale" is derived from Latin ante (before, in time and space) and murale (wall, attributive).
Tennent was born in Mid Calder, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, in 1673.He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1695 and was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1706. . He migrated to the Thirteen Colonies in 1718, arriving in the colony of Pennsylvania at the urging of his wife's cousin James Logan, a Scots-Irish Quaker and close friend of William Pe