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  2. Amish - Wikipedia

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    When people refer to the Amish today, they normally refer to the Old Order Amish, though there are other subgroups of Amish. [8] The Amish fall into three main subgroups—the Old Order Amish, the New Order Amish , and the Beachy Amish —all of whom wear plain dress and live their life according to the Bible as codified in their church's Ordnung .

  3. List of Mayflower passengers - Wikipedia

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    Other passengers were hired hands, servants, or farmers recruited by London merchants, all originally destined for the Colony of Virginia. Four of this latter group of passengers were small children given into the care of Mayflower pilgrims as indentured servants. The Virginia Company began the transportation of children in 1618. [37]

  4. Plymouth Colony - Wikipedia

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    Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Brownists (a sect of English Protestant dissenters) who came to be known as the Pilgrims. The core group (roughly 40 percent of the adults and 56 percent of the family groupings) [2] were part of a congregation led in America by William Bradford and William Brewster.

  5. Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) - Wikipedia

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    King James I and Charles I made some efforts to reconcile the Puritan clergy who had been alienated by the lack of change in the Church of England.Puritans embraced Calvinism (Reformed theology) with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity, as opposed to the episcopal polity of the Church of ...

  6. Historical sources of the Crusades: pilgrimages and exploration

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    An account of Nikulas' travels and is essentially a travel guide to Europe and the Holy Land for pilgrims. Al-Harawi. Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Harawi (died 1215), a Persian Sufi ascetic traveler. Al-Tadhkira al-Harawiya fi al-hiyal al-harabiya (Admonition regarding war stratagems). A work was written for al-Zahir Ghazi, sultan of Aleppo.

  7. History of the Jews in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The countries with the greatest Jewish population losses since 1945 were primarily those in Central and Eastern Europe. The Holocaust of the Jewish people (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston): holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), or Churben (Yiddish: חורבן), as described in ...

  8. Mayflower - Wikipedia

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    Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.

  9. Jewish genealogy - Wikipedia

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    Jewish genealogy is the study of Jewish families and the tracing of their lineages and history. The Pentateuchal equivalent for "genealogies" is "toledot" (generations). In later Hebrew, as in Aramaic, the term and its derivatives "yiḥus" and "yuḥasin" recur with the implication of legitimacy or nobility of birth. [ 1 ]