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Anne Luther Bagby (March 20, 1859- December 22, 1942) was an American Baptist missionary from Texas. She was the first woman from the Texas Baptists to become a foreign missionary. [1] She also served as a leader of the Texas Baptists when she was not doing missionary work in Brazil. [2] Overall, Bagby worked as a missionary for sixty-one years ...
The other missionary in the river, Fleming, before being speared, desperately reiterated friendly overtures and asked the Waorani why they were killing them. Meanwhile, the other Waorani warriors, led by Gikita, attacked the three missionaries still on the beach, spearing Saint first, then McCully as he rushed to stop them.
William Cameron Townsend (July 9, 1896 – April 23, 1982) was an American Christian missionary-linguist and the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL International).
1797 – Netherlands Missionary Society formed; [202] [204] The Duff, carrying 36 lay and pastoral missionaries, sails to three islands of the South Pacific; [205] The first Christian missionary (from the London Missionary Society) visits Hiva on the Pacific island of Tahuata; he is not well received.
Elisabeth Elliot (née Howard; December 21, 1926 – June 15, 2015) was a Christian missionary, author, and speaker. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca people (now known as Huaorani; also rendered as Waorani or Waodani) of eastern Ecuador. She later spent two years as a ...
The May 3, 1968, crash of Braniff Flight 352 south of Fort Worth was the deadliest airline disaster in Texas history at the time, killing all 85 on board. But the tragedy has largely been forgotten.
Five people were killed in a crash in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. The crash took place in a work zone on northbound I-95 at about 1:30 p.m.
PECOS, Texas (AP) — Federal officials investigating the deadly West Texas collision between at Union Pacific train and a tractor-trailer hauling a heavy equipment said Friday they were trying to determine why the tractor-trailer was stopped on the tracks, leading to the crash that derailed the train and propelled the heavy equipment into the air.