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  2. The Electric Amish - Wikipedia

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    The Electric Amish is an Indiana-based parody rock band that takes well-known rock standards and recasts them from a heavily tongue-in-cheek Amish perspective. The band consists of three fictional characters: Graeber Goodman (born in Las Vegas, Nevada, moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and settled in Nappanee, Indiana) on electric guitar and vocals; Carl Goodman (born in Berne, Indiana) on ...

  3. Amish in the City - Wikipedia

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    Amish in the City is an American reality television series which premiered on UPN on July 28, 2004. The plot revolved around five Amish teenagers experiencing "modern" (non-Amish) culture by living in a house with six mainstream American teenagers. The show follows the Amish teenagers as they explore their freedom from the Amish religious code ...

  4. West Nickel Mines School shooting - Wikipedia

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    Charles Carl Roberts IV. On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing ...

  5. Renick Farm (Renick, West Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    96000525 [1] Added to NRHP. April 4, 1997. Renick Farm, also known as the William Renick Farm, is an historic home located near Renick, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The farmhouse was built between 1787 and 1792, and is a two-story, limestone dwelling with a gable roof in the Georgian style. A brick Federal style addition was built in 1825 ...

  6. Moses M. Beachy - Wikipedia

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    Beachy was born near Salisbury, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He was ordained a minister in the Amish church on May 19, 1912, and ordained a bishop in that church on October 1, 1916. His father, two brothers, and two sons were also Amish ministers. In 1927, he was involved in the church division that led to formation of the Beachy Amish ...

  7. Renno Amish - Wikipedia

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    The Renno Amish, also called Beachy Amish or "black toppers" are a subgroup of Amish that was formed in 1863 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. They are the moderately conservative Old Order Amish group in Kishacoquillas Valley , locally called Big Valley, but still relatively conservative compared with the Amish of other regions.

  8. Subgroups of Amish - Wikipedia

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    The Swartzentruber Amish are an Old Order Amish group that is about as conservative as the Nebraska Amish but much more numerous and therefore much better known. They formed as the result of a division that occurred among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in 1917. The bishop who broke away was Sam E. Yoder.

  9. Hex sign - Wikipedia

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    Hex sign. 12-pointed compass rose on a hex sign. Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. [1] Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later ...

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