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As a Methodist evangelist, Bennard wrote the first verse of "The Old Rugged Cross" in Albion, Michigan, in the fall of 1912 [note 1] as a response to ridicule that he had received at a revival meeting. [3] Bennard traveled with Ed E. Mieras from Chicago to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin where they held evangelistic meetings at the Friends Church from ...
November 20, 1985. Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District is a historic hospital complex and national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 18 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure associated with the Veterans' Administration hospital at Asheville.
On July 23, 1888, with increasing membership amongst the six National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), Congress established the seventh of ten national old soldiers' homes in Grant County, Indiana to be known as the Marion Branch. Congress allotted an appropriation of $200,000, while the Grant County residents provided a natural ...
But, more than 2,000,000 men served in the Union Army, a third of the white men of military age (13 to 43 years old in 1860). If the number of men disabled in service equaled a sixth of the soldiers who died in the war, the number eligible for admission to the National Asylum would have been more than 300,000.
The four founding members of R.E.M. reunited and performed publicly for the first time in decades at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony. The band performed "Losing My Religion."
July 23, 2010 [2] Gulfport Veterans Administration Medical Center Historic District, also known as Centennial Plaza, is a 48-acre (19 ha) compound located in Gulfport, Mississippi. [3] The facility operated as a medical center under the Veterans Administration from the 1920s until 2005, when damage from Hurricane Katrina resulted in its closure ...
Kinky Friedman, the satirical and often provocative musician, author and one-time politician, has died at the age of 79. “Kinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow at his beloved Echo Hill surrounded ...
The 16-year-old girl died when she stumbled and plunged down an embankment while on a sightseeing walk in Switzerland, authorities said Monday. U.S. teen falls over 300 feet to her death while ...