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  2. Edwin Lord Weeks - Wikipedia

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    In 1872 Weeks relocated to Paris, becoming a pupil of Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme. [1] After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America 's major painters of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between ...

  3. New Zealand Fashion Week - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, Air New Zealand dropped its naming rights sponsorship for the show. [2] In 2014, the event moved to the Viaduct Events Centre. [1] In 2019, NZFW moved back to the original venue at the Auckland Town Hall. [3] Dame Pieter Stewart, founder of the event, sold it to Faroz Ali in May 2021. [4] [5] The 2020, 2021 & 2022 fashion weeks were ...

  4. Christmas - Wikipedia

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    The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ ‎ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist.

  5. Amish religious practices - Wikipedia

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    Amish religious practices are reflective of traditional Anabaptist Christian theology. The Old Order Amish typically have worship services every second Sunday in private homes. The typical district has 80 adults and 90 children under age 19. [2] Worship begins with a short sermon by one of several preachers or the bishop of the church district ...

  6. William Weeks Hall - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert Lewis Hall (father) Mary "Lily" Weeks (mother) Shadows-on the-Teche plantation (1938), New Iberia, Louisiana. William Weeks Hall [1] (1894–1958), was an American artist, photographer and art critic. [1] He was the last individual owner of the Shadows-on-the-Teche, a historic house and former sugar cane plantation.

  7. Ruth Bushyager - Wikipedia

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    Bushyager was born in March 1977 in Essex, England. [1] She studied at the University of Bristol, graduating with a Master of Science (MSci) degree in 1999. [2] From 2000 to 2004, she was a policy advisor at the Cabinet Office. [1] She then entered Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an evangelical Anglican theological college to train for ordination.

  8. World Fellowship Center - Wikipedia

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    The World Fellowship Center is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, retreat and intergenerational conference center located in Albany, New Hampshire, United States. It is open between June and September, with most of its scheduled summer program commencing shortly after June solstice and concluding on or shortly after Labor Day weekend.

  9. Anglican Pacifist Fellowship - Wikipedia

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    Origins and early history. The Anglican Pacifist Fellowship was established in 1937, and now has some 1,400 members in over 40 countries, as well as a sister organisation, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, in the United States of America. APF was founded as a specifically Anglican offshoot of Dick Sheppard 's secular Peace Pledge Union.