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Title page of the book Magnalia Christi Americana (roughly, The Glorious Works of Christ in America ) is a book published in 1702 by the puritan minister Cotton Mather (1663–1728). Its title is in Latin , but its subtitle is in English: The Ecclesiastical History of New England from Its First Planting in 1620, until the Year of Our Lord 1698 .
B.A. Paris was born in Surrey, England, in 1958 to a French mother and Irish father.She is the third of 6 children, including 4 brothers and a sister. After completing her education, she moved to France, where she worked as a trader in an international bank in Paris for several years.
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The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
Some churches and organizations in the USA practice a "pledge of allegiance" or "affirmation of loyalty" to the Christian Flag, which is similar to the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag. The first pledge was written by Lynn Harold Hough, a Methodist minister who had heard Ralph Diffendorfer, secretary to the Methodist Young People's ...
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The flag raised at the end of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, however, had the wrong side on top. Two rings were in the top row and three were in the bottom, which is the incorrect formation.
The organizers behind the Paris Olympics apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" during Friday's opening ceremony and provoked outrage ...