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  2. United States - Wikipedia

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    The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.

  3. Deaths in 2024 - Wikipedia

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    Rosalina Neri, 96, Italian actress and singer ( Three Men and a Leg, All the Moron's Men ). [3] Ranch Sironi, American bassist ( Nebula ). [4] Ben Vautier, 88, French artist, suicide by gunshot. [5] Richard Zuschlag, 76, American ambulance service executive, founder of Acadian Ambulance, cancer.

  4. List of the largest evangelical churches - Wikipedia

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    Some churches include their, sometimes loosely, affiliated churches in other places and even people that attend by electronic media. As many have several services on one day, there may be some overlap, with people attending more than one service. The exact number of people is seldom counted, [citation needed] thus estimation errors can occur ...

  5. Protestant Reformed Churches in America - Wikipedia

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    In 2021–2022, a number of pastors and elders, along with hundreds of members of the PRC left to establish a new denomination named the "Reformed Protestant Church." The impacted congregations included Byron Center, Michigan, Dyer, Indiana, Hull, Iowa, and Edmonton, Canada. Sister churches of the PRC in the Philippines and Singapore were also ...

  6. GreatAmerica Financial Services - Wikipedia

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    GreatAmerica Financial Services is a national commercial equipment finance company that provides financing and consulting services in the United States, and some of the U.S. Territories. History. The company was founded in 1990. In 1992, the company relocated from Michigan to Cedar Rapids, Iowa and became GreatAmerica Leasing Corporation.

  7. History of the Puritans in North America - Wikipedia

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    e. In the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England. Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church of England who believed that the Church of England was insufficiently reformed, retaining too much of its Roman Catholic doctrinal roots, and who therefore opposed royal ...

  8. Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church - Wikipedia

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    Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church. / 39.94332; -75.15186. The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic church and congregation which is located at 419 South 6th Street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The congregation, founded in 1794, is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal congregation in the nation.

  9. Racial segregation of churches in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are many different Pentecostal churches in America. The Church of God in Christ is a predominantly black denomination, with 84% of their members being black, 5% being white, and 8% being Latino. Other Pentecostal churches, such as Assemblies of God and the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), are fairly racially diverse. Their white ...