Great Awakening

A Christian revivalist movement that swept the American colonies from 1725 to 1760. In experiences of ecstatic joy and release, converts "awakened" to Christ and knew him experientially. By 1730, Theodore J. Frelinghuysen, a Dutch Calvinist, and Gilbert Tennent, a revivalist Presbyterian, had begun the Awakening from their churches in New Jersey. In 1734, Jonathan Edwards, the most formidable apologist for this experiential religion, witnessed to the "surprising work of God" in his Congregationalist church at Northampton, Massachusetts. British evangelist George Whitefield toured the colonies between 1738 and 1740 lending impetus and cohesiveness to the movement. Itinerant revivalists carried the Awakening to the South.

Its distinguishing characteristics included the insistence on the personal nature of conversion to Christ, itinerant ministry, and a novel preaching style appealing openly to the emotions. Mobile ministry and individual conversion tended to undermine the parish structure of the old tax-supported churches and led to a proliferation of separate and voluntary ones. The revivalists succeeded in revitalizing colonial Protestantism by a typically modern appeal to individual experience. They accommodated New World Calvinism and Anglicanism to conditions of dramatically expanded personal liberty.

(See also: Great Awakening , New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Definition and meaning of Virginia Plan:

Virginia Plan

James Madison offered the Constitutional Convention the Virginia plan calling for proportional representation in Congress. James Paterson's New Jersey plan, hoping to protect the less populous states, called for equal representation in Congress for each state. The controversy was resolved in the Great Compromise.

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The mission of The Golden Age Foundation is to bring humanity into a golden era. The work is to bring about a fundamental change in the nature of each and every one of us where our consciousness undergoes a transformation.

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Is there a global mind? Could it be detected quantitatively? In an empirical approach to this question, over the last decade a half-dozen researchers have examined the outputs of electronic noise-based, truly random number generators (RNG) before, during and after highly focused or coherent group events. The group events studied included intense psychotherapy sessions, captivating theater presentations, religious rituals, popular sports competitions like World Cup Soccer, and high interest television broadcasts like the Academy Awards 1. Results of over 100 experiments conducted during such events suggest that mind and matter may be entangled in fundamental ways, and in particular that focused mental attention in groups appears to be associated with negentropic fluctuations in streams of truly random data.

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The Port Authority is a financially self-supporting public agency that receives no tax revenues from any state or local jurisdiction and has no power to tax. It relies almost entirely on revenues generated by facility users, tolls, fees, and rents. The Governor of each state appoints six members to the Board of Commissioners, subject to state senate approval. Board Members serve as public officials without pay for overlapping six-year terms. The Governors retain the right to veto the action ...

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Bradley had harbored political ambitions for years, and in 1978 decided to run for United States Senate in New Jersey, for a seat held by liberal Republican and four-term incumbent Clifford P. Case. Case lost his primary to anti-tax conservative Jeff Bell, and Bradley won the seat in the general election with 55% of the vote. In the Senate, Bradley acquired a reputation for being somewhat aloof and a definite policy wonk, specializing in complex reform initiatives. The best known of these was the 1986 overhaul of the federal tax code, ...

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For details on each specific colony, see Delaware Colony, Province of New Jersey, Province of New York, and Province of Pennsylvania. The Middle Colonies, consisting of the present-day states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, were characterized by a large degree of diversity - religious, political, economic, and ethnic. Many Dutch and Irish immigrants settled in these areas, as well as in Long Island and Connecticut. (The Penns ...

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 Students often ask how they can become involved in psi research and what educational courses they can pursue to become employed in the field. I often have to disappoint them. As mentioned elsewhere, actual funding for parapsychology in America has been abysmal. Private sponsors have kept the field afloat, but more and more research groups are disappearing.

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On May 12, 1932, delivery truck driver William Allen pulled his truck to the side of a road about 4.5 miles from the Lindbergh home. He went to a grove of trees to relieve himself, and there he discovered the corpse of a toddler. Allen notified police, who took the body to a morgue in nearby Trenton, New Jersey. The body was badly decomposed, and had been partly eaten by scavengers. The skull was badly fractured, the left leg and the right foot were missing; and it was impossible to determine if the body was a boy or a girl. Because the right foot was missing, the body could ...

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By 1774, Washington had become one of the colonies' wealthiest men. In that year, he was chosen as a delegate from Virginia to the First Continental Congress. Although the American Revolution had not yet devolved into open warfare, tensions between the colonies and Great Britain continued to rise, and Washington attended the Second Continental Congress, in 1775, in military uniform—the only delegate to do so. He strongly supported independence. The Second Continental Congress needed to select as commander in chief of its newly forme ...

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The VX nerve agent is the most well-known of the V-series of nerve agents. Its chemical name is O-Ethyl-S-[2(diisopropylamino)ethyl] methylphosphonothioate. The only countries known to possess VX are the United States, Russia, France and Syria. VX agent is considered an area denial weapon due to its physical properties. With its low viscosity and low volatility VX has the texture and feel of high-grade motor oil. This makes it especially dangerous, as it has a high persistence in the environment. It is odorless and taste ...

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Bon Jovi - Studio Albums. Bon Jovi (January 1984); #43 US, US sales: 2,000,000 7800° Fahrenheit (April 1985); #37 US, #28 UK, US sales: 1,000,000 Slippery When Wet (August 1986); #1 US, #6 UK, US sales: 12,000,000 New Jersey (September 1988); #1 US, #1 UK, US sales: 7,000,000 Keep the Faith (November 1992); #5 US, #1 UK, US sales: 2,000,000 These Days (July 1995); #9 US, #1 UK, US sales: 1,000,000 Crush (June 2000); ...

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Bon Jovi - The 80s. Lead singer Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bongiovi) began to play piano and guitar at thirteen, learning Elton John songs. At that same age, Bongiovi founded his first band, called Raze. At sixteen Bon Jovi met David Bryan (David Bryan Rashbaum) in high school (Sayreville War Memorial High School ) and founded an R&B cover band with him named Atlantic City Expressway. They played at New Jersey clubs, even though they were minors. Still in his teens, Bon Jovi played in the band Jon Bon Jovi and the Wild Ones, playing New Jersey clubs like the Fast Lane and ...

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1880 - May - August. May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 29 - France annexes Tahiti July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada. July 16 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe. 1880 - September - December. September 5 - First successful test of an electric Tram in the ...

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Chapman code - Islands. CHI Channel Islands ALD Alderney GSY Guernsey JSY Jersey SRK Sark IOM Isle of Man IOW Isle of Wight Chapman code - England. BDF Bedfordshire BRK Berkshire BKM Buckinghamshire CAM Cambridgeshire CHS Cheshire CON Cornwall CUL Cumberland DBY Derbyshire DEV Devonshire DOR Dorset DUR Durham

January January 11-12 – Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight across the Pacific from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California. January 15 - Maj James Doolittle establishes a record for a transport flight across the United States, from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey in 11 hours 59 minutes. February February 3 - Hugo Junkers dies February 12 - USS Macon airship sinks off Point Sur, California. February 22 - Leland Andrews breaks Doolittle's January record, completing a transcontinental tran ...

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In 1925, Walter Gifford, then president of AT&T, established Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc as a separate entity which took over work previously conducted by the research division of Western Electric's engineering department. Half of Bell Labs was owned by Western Electric, the other half being owned by AT&T. Discoveries and inventions at Bell Labs include: 1925: Facsimile (fax) transmission first demonstrated publicly 1927: Long-distance television transmission, of images of Herbert Hoover, from Washing ...

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List of mountain ranges - Africa. Aberdare Range, Kenya Ahaggar Mountains, Algeria Atlas mountains, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia Cherangany Hills, Kenya Drakensberg, South Africa and Lesotho Ethiopian Mountains Ahmar Mountains Livingstone Mountains Mitumba Mountains, Congo Ruwenzori Range ("Mountains of the Moon"), Uganda Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria Tibesti Mountains Virunga Mountains List of mountain ranges - Antarc ...

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The Miss America competition originated on September 7, 1921, as a two-day beauty contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The event that year was still called the Atlantic City Pageant, and the winner of the grand prize, the Golden Mermaid trophy, wasn't even called "Miss America" until 1922, when she re-entered the pageant. The pageant was initiated in an attempt to keep tourists in Atlantic City after Labor Day. In the early years of the pageant, a beauty competition of the women wearing bathing suits was the main event. When the Miss Americ ...

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English language - Tone groups. English is an Intonation language. This means that the pitch of the voice is used syntactically, for example, to convey surprise and irony, or to change a statement into a question. In English, intonation patterns are on groups of words, which are called tone groups, tone units, intonation groups or sense groups. Tone groups are said on a single breath and, as a consequence, are of limited length, more often being on average five words long or lasting roughly two seconds. Th ...

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