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SS Arthur M. Anderson in August 2002 at a Duluth ore dock.. SS Arthur M. Anderson came out of the drydock of the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio in 1952. [1] She had a length of 647 feet (197 m), a 70-foot (21 m) beam, a 36-foot (11 m) depth, [1] and a gross tonnage of roughly 20,000 tons.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19th June 1834 [1] – 31st January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher.Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers."
The poet Evan Evans repeated this story in 1764, but made Caswennan the name of the ship. Iolo Morganwg (1747–1826), antiquarian and forger, listed seven of the ships belonging to King Arthur which "conveyed the saints to Ynys Enlli". He included Gwennan but not Prydwen; the other six names were purely fanciful.
The process of Christianisation and timing of the adoption of Christianity varied by region and was not necessarily a one-way process, with the traditional religion regaining dominance in most kingdoms at least once after their first Christian king. Kings likely often converted for political reasons such as the imposition by a more powerful ...
Pridwen was the name of King Arthur's shield. The name was taken from Welsh tradition, Arthur's ship in Preiddeu Annwfn and Culhwch and Olwen being called Prydwen ; it was perhaps borrowed by Geoffrey because of its appropriateness to a picture of the Virgin Mary as "white face", "fair face", "blessed form" or "precious and white".
Culhwch also recounts Arthur's nearby rescue of another of the three famous prisoners, Mabon ap Modron, a god of poetry after whom the Mabinogi are named, and gives details of another ruler of Annwfn, Gwynn ap Nudd, king of the Tylwyth Teg - the fairies in Welsh lore - "whom God has placed over the brood of devils in Annwn lest they should ...
King Charles also has two stepchildren, the children of Queen Consort Camilla Parker-Bowles. When Charles and Camilla married in 2005, their blended family became part of royal history.
Open-air preaching in China using the Wordless Book [1]. The Wordless Book is a Christian evangelistic book. Evidence points to it being invented by the famous London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, in a message given on January 11, 1866 [2] to several hundred orphans regarding Psalm 51:7 "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."