Image NathanandDavid.JPG thumb 200px Nathan, on the right, advising King David by Matthias Scheits For other Biblical people with this name, see Nathan given name . Nathan the Prophet Floruit fl. c. 1000 BC was a court prophet who lived in the time of King David and Queen Bathsheba . He came to David to reprimand him over his committing adultery with Bathsheba while she was the wife of Uriah the Hittite whose death the King had also arranged to hide his previous transgression. His actions are described in the Books of Book of Samuel Samuel , Books of Kings Kings , and Books of Chronicles Chronicles see especially, Bibleverse 2 Samuel 7 2 17 HE , Bibleverse nb 2 Samuel 12 1 25 HE . Nathan wrote histories of the reigns of both David and of Solomon see Bibleverse 1 Chronicles 29 29 HE and Bibleverse 2 Chronicles 9 29 HE , and was involved in the music of the temple see 2 Chronicles 29 25 . In Bibleverse 1 Kings 1 8 45 HE it is Nathan who tells the dying David of the plot of Adonijah to become king, resulting in King Solomon Solomon being proclaimed king instead. The feast day of Nathan the Prophet is on 24 October. In the Eastern Orthodox Church , and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite , he is commemorated as a saint on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers i.e., the Sunday before the Great Feast of the Christmas Nativity of the Lord . David named one of his sons after the prophet. See also Book of Nathan the Prophet Nathan son of David External links http ocafs.oca.org FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID 4&ID 1&FSID 81 Sunday of the Holy Fathers Orthodox synaxarion synaxarion Prophets of the Tanakh DEFAULTSORT Nathan Category 11th century BC people Category 10th century BC people Category David Category Books of Samuel be , cs N tan de Natan Prophet fr Nathan proph te id Natan it Natan he nl Natan profeet ja no Natan pl Natan prorok pt Nat ru sr sv Natan tl Natan uk yi zh ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image HipodromodelaZarzuela.jpg 325px thumb right Horse race in action Hip dromo de la Zarzuela in Madrid The Gran Premio de Madrid is an international horse race which is held in the Hip dromo de la Zarzuela racetrack on the last Sunday in June. The race is designated for Colt horse colts and filly fillies three years and older. It is a 2,500 metre race. The first Gran Premio de Madrid was run on June 1, 1919. In 2006, after a 13 year hiatus, a 2,400 metre Gran Premio de Madrid was run, and the new weight conditions were 59.5 kilograms for 4 years and older and 52 kilograms for 3 years of age. The champions of the Gran Premio de Madrid in order of date were 2006 Baldoria IRE h.03 In The Wings Prickly Pearl Horcajada C.Madro os 1993 King Cobra GB m.89 Ardrooss Sibley Gilson C.Dos Hermanas 1992 Dariyoun USA m.88 Sharasthani Darara Machado C.Alborada 1991 Monet SPA m.88 Habitancum Madre a Machado C.Alaz n 1990 Akelarre SPA m.87 Adonijah Hannah Lightfoot Munro C.Lortenia 1989 Villa d Este GB m.84 Ile de Bourbon Exquisite Medina C.Mach n 1988 Vichisky GB m.85 Ile de Bourbon Heaven Chosen Carrasco Mqsa. de Santa Cruz de Paniagua 1987 Casualidad IRE m.82 Rheffissimo Casuarina Point Carudel C.Rosales 1986 Casualidad IRE m.82 Rheffissimo Casuarina Point Carudel C.Rosales 1985 Richal SPA m.80 Chacal Celestial River Carudel C.Rosales 1984 Richal SPA m.80 Chacal Celestial River Carudel C.Rosales 1983 Brezo SPA m.79 Chacal Be Ever Careful Carudel C.Rosales 1982 El Pa s GB m.77 High Line Filiform Medina C.Mendoza 1981 El Pa s GB m.77 High Line Filiform Mart n C.Mendoza 1980 El Pa s GB m.77 High Line Filiform Mart n C.Mendoza 1979 Pr ncipe Duero SPA m.75 Frisco Miss Leyland Garc a C.Corellana 1978 El Se or IRE m.74 Taj Dewan Mecca Mart n C.Mendoza 1977 El Se or IRE m.74 Taj Dewan Mecca Medina C.Mendoza 1976 Rheffissimo FR m.73 Rheffic La Sanctissima Rodr guez Cde. Villapadierna 1975 Chacal IRE m.71 Le Levanstell Polar Point Carudel C. ... more details
Image VUMC sanctuary.jpg thumb 250px right Church Sanctuary The Venice United Methodist Church of Venice, Los Angeles, California Venice, California , is a member of the Conferences of the United Methodist Church Western Jurisdiction California Pacific Conference within the United Methodist Church . It serves the Venice and Marina del Rey, California Marina del Rey communities within the UMC Cal Pac Los Angeles District. History The Church was founded in 1913, as the First Methodist Church of Venice. Location The campus is located on the southeast corner of Victoria Ave. and Lincoln Boulevard Southern California Lincoln Blvd. , just one block north of California State Route 187 Venice Blvd. . The church is adjacent to the Venice Center for Peace with Justice and the Arts VCPJA, the bright yellow building . It is accessible by the Santa Monica 2 Big Blue Bus , and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Los Angeles MTA . Services Venice United Methodist church celebrates worship on Sundays at 10 30 a.m. Services are between 60 and 75 minutes long. Following the service, everyone is invited to share a bit of refreshment during our hospitality time in the parlor, before they carry on with their day. The worship contains the familiar and some unfamiliar elements of music, prayer, Scripture reading, & prophetic witness. On the first Sunday of each month the congregation celebrates communion. To this communion table, everyone is invited into the full life of the church. Pastor and Staff Pastor Reverend Adonijah Okechukwu Ogbonnaya , ATC, BA, MATS, MA, PHD. President and CEO, Apostolic Activation. AACTEV8 aka Global Apostolic Activation Network works with ministries and churches to help disciple believers and train for the fivefold ministries network. Staff not named Community service Youth Programs none Assistance Programs The congregation maintains an emergency food pantry and a people in crisis fund, for those who find themselves in momentary crisis ... more details
Arent Schuyler was born in Rensselaerswyck Albany , New York on June 25, 1662 and died in Belleville, New Jersey on November 26, 1730. A member of the influential Schuyler family among the first settlers to New Netherland , during his life time he was a surveyor, Indian agent , miner, merchant, and land speculator. Schuyler participated in the military actions an early King William s War French and Indian War in Canada in the 1690s. In 1694, Schuyler traveled into north western New Jersey to investigate rumors that the French were trying to incite the local Lenni Lenape population to rebel against the English. Schuyler found no evidence of a rebellion, but discovered a Pompton River rich fertile valley where the Lenni Lenape grew a variety of crops. Schuyler reported his findings to the English and then convinced Major Anthony Brockholst, Bayard family Samuel Bayard , Martin Berry House Samuel Berry , Hendrick and David Mandeville, George Ryerson and John Mead to invest in the purchase of the land he referred to as the Pompton Valley. The seven chose Schuyler to be negotiator with the Lenape for the rights to the area. Samual Bayard, however, was chosen to negotiate with the East Jersey Company, which maintained land rights over the area that is now Wayne. Approximately 5,000 acres 20 km were purchased on November 11, 1695. He built the Schuyler Colfax House along the Pompton River . In 1710, he bought a large tract on New Barbadoes Neck . The new purchase present day Kearny, New Jersey Kearny , North Arlington, New Jersey North Arlington , and Lyndhurst, New Jersey Lyndhurst and Kingsland had a significant deposit of copper, and the family became wealthy as they started to mine the metal at the Schuyler Copper Mine . Arent Schuyler married three times to Jenneke Teller, to Swantje Van Duyckhuysen, and to Maria Walter s , the daughter of Robert Walter s and Catharine Leisler. He had eleven children among them were Adonijah, John, and Peter. ref Cite web last first a ... more details
Thomas Rice June 30, 1654 1747 was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts Great and General Court of Massachusetts representing Marlborough, Massachusetts Marlborough for several years and was a founder of Westborough, Massachusetts in 1717. Personal background Thomas Rice was born on June 30, 1654 to Thomas Rice and Mary King Rice in Sudbury, Massachusetts . ref name Ward Ward, Andrew Henshaw. http books.google.com books download A genealogical history of the Rice famil.pdf?id DKxOAAAAMAAJ&output pdf&sig ACfU3U3MH1Wk2ycAAqUP5Xs5hm4Uw5cqBg&source gbs v2 summary r&cad 0 A genealogical History of the Rice Family Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice Boston C. Benjamin Richardson, Publisher, 1858, 379pp ref He was the grandson of Edmund Rice 1638 Edmund Rice , a 1638 immigrant from England and founder of Sudbury. Rice married Anna Rice, daughter of Deacon Edward Rice and Agnes Bent, on January 10, 1681 at Marlborough, Massachusetts, and they had 14 children. During Queen Anne s War in 1704, two of Rice s sons, Adonijah and Ashur, were abducted from a flax field in Marlborough by Mohawk people Mohawk raiders from Canada. ref Parkman, Ebenezer. http books.google.com books download The story of the Rice boys.pdf?id 4TEBAAAAMAAJ&output pdf&sig ACfU3U1 ajD4OunKHU EB0kvtiaEFf6Ycg&source gbs v2 summary r&cad 0 The Story of the Rice Boys Captured by the Indians August 8, 1704 , Westborough Historical Society, Westborough, Massachusetts, 1906, 7pp ref In 1717, Rice and his family lived in the portion of Marlborough that became Westborough, Massachusetts Westborough . He was one of the founding members of the town, and one of the original members of the Congregational Church at Westborough begun by Ebenezer Parkman in 1724. ref name Ward He represented the Town of Marlborough for several years in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, the colonial legislature in Boston in the early 1700s. ref name Ward Thomas Rice died in 1747, with the Boston Gazette claim ... more details
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Christian David Ginsburg born 25 December 1831, Warsaw , Congress Poland , Russian Empire now in Poland died 7 March 1914, Palmers Green , Middlesex , England was a Polish born, British Bible scholar and student of the masoretic tradition in Judaism . Early life He was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw on 25 December 1831, converting to Christianity at the age of 15. Work Coming to England shortly after the completion of his education in the Rabbi nic College at Warsaw, Ginsburg continued his study of the Hebrew Scriptures , with special attention to the Megillot . The first result of these studies was a translation of the Song of Songs , with a historical and critical commentary, published in 1857. A similar translation of Ecclesiastes , followed by treatises on the Karaites , the Essenes , and the Kabbalah Kabbala , kept the author prominently before biblical students while he was preparing the first sections of his magnum opus , the critical study of the Masoretic Text Masorah . Magnum opus Beginning in 1867 with the publication of Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah Jacob ben Hayyim s Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible, Hebrew and English, with notices , and the Masoret haMasoret of Elias Levita , in Hebrew language Hebrew , with translation and commentary, Ginsburg took rank as an eminent Hebrew scholar. In 1870 he was appointed one of the first members of the committee for the revision of the English language English version of the Old Testament under contract with the Trinitarian Bible Society . His life work culminated in the publication of the Masorah , in three volumes 1880 1886 , followed by the Massoretico critical edition of the Hebrew Bible 1894 , and the elaborate http www.archive.org stream introductionofma00ginsuoft page n3 mode 2up introduction to it 1897 . Ginsburg had one predecessor in the field, the learned Jacob ben Hayyim , who in 1524 1525 had published the second Rabbinic Bible , containing what has ever since been known as the Masorah but neithe ... more details
Welch is a surname meaning foreign or Welsh . ref Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames , Reaney & Wilson, Oxford University Press 2005 ref For the Etymology of the name, see Welsh surname Welsh Famous Welches include to Adonijah Welch 1821 1889 , American politician Alexander Welch 1873 1962 , Canadian politician Andrew Welch , businessman Bettina Welch 1922 1993 , New Zealand actress Bo Welch , American film director Bob Welch baseball player Bob Welch born 1956 , American baseball player Bob Welch musician Bob Welch born 1946 , American musician Brian Welch born 1970 , American musician Bruce Welch born 1941 , English musician Carolyn Welch born 1929 , American figure skater Daniel Welch disambiguation Dave Welch , English poker player David Welch , American politician Denise Welch , British actress Denton Welch 1915 1948 , English writer Ed Welch born 1947 , English composer Edward Welch 1806 1868 , Welsh architect Edward F. Welch, Jr. 1924 2008 , American admiral Florence Welch born 1986 , vocalist of Florence the Machine Frank Welch 1835 1878 , American politician Frank A. Welch , American military officer George Welch pilot 1918 1954 , American military pilot Gillian Welch born 1967 , American musician Graeme Welch , English cricketer Greg Welch , former Australian triathlete Harold Welch 1912 1995 , American businessman Herbert George Welch Herbert Welch 1862 1969 , American bishop Jack Welch illustrator Jack Welch 1905 1985 , American illustrator Jack Welch born 1935 , American businessman James Welch VC 1889 1978 , English soldier James Welch writer 1940 2003 , American author Joseph Welch 1890 1960 , American lawyer Justin Welch born 1972 , British musician Keith Welch born 1968 , footballer born in England whose clubs included Rochdale and Bristol City Larry D. Welch born 1934 , United States Air Force general Lenny Welch born 1938 , American pop singer Lew Welch 1926 c.1971 , American poet Lou Welch , fictional character from Babylon 5 Laura Welch , Fir ... more details
Use mdy dates date September 2011 Following are presidents of Iowa State University . Presidents of Iowa State University Adonijah Welch Adonijah Welch Dr. Adonijah Strong Welch April 12, 1821 March 13, 1889 was the 1st president of ISU. Born in East Hampton town , Connecticut East Hampton , Connecticut and died in Pasadena, California Pasadena , California. Education B.A. University of Michigan M.A. University of Michigan PhD ? Achievements First principal of Michigan State Normal School Eastern Michigan University from 1852 to 1865 United States Senate Senator Republican Party United States Republican R Florida FL June 17, 1868 to March 3, 1869 declined renomination to accept presidency ISU 1st ISU president from 1868 to 1883 Design of early campus Helped develop agriculture and mechanical arts courses History of civilization and practical psychology chair from 1884 until death Welch s first wife was Eunice P. Buckingham married in 1859 and had three children. After Eunice s death in 1867 he married Mary Beaumont Dudley in 1868 and had two more children. Mary established the first courses in what would be come the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. ref Adonijah Strong Welch Papers, RS 2 1, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library ref ref http bioguide.congress.gov scripts biodisplay.pl?index W000261 Congressional biography ref Seaman A. Knapp Seaman A. Knapp Seaman Asahal Knapp December 16, 1833 April 1, 1911 was the 2nd president of ISU. Born in northern New York. Education Troy Conference Academy Green Mountain College Union College with Phi Beta Kappa Society Phi Beta Kappa honors Achievements Vice president of Fort Edward Collegiate Institute 1856 1863 Assistant manager of Ripley Female College Green Mountain College 1864 1865 Methodist minister Head of the Iowa College for the Blind First chair of agriculture at ISU in 1879 2nd ISU president from 1884 to 1885 Started first demonstration farm in Terrell, Texas Terrell , Texas Knapp a ... more details
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Infobox Congressman name Barnabas Bidwell image imagesize 250px smallimage caption state Massachusetts district Massachusetts s 12th congressional district 12th term start term end preceded Simon Larned succeeded Ezekiel Bacon office2 term start2 term end2 preceded2 succeeded2 birth date August 23, 1763 birth place Monterey, Massachusetts Township No. 1 now Monterey, Massachusetts death date July 27, 1833 death place Bath, Ontario restingplace Cataraqui Cemetery, Cataraqui, Ontario nationality United States American , Canadian party Democratic Republican spouse relations children Marshall Spring Bidwell residence alma mater Yale College class of 1785, Brown University occupation profession Attorney at law Attorney office2 Attorney General of Massachusetts term start2 June 15, 1807 term end2 August 30, 1810 predecessor2 James Sullivan governor James Sullivan successor2 Perez Morton office3 Member of the br Massachusetts Senate Massachusetts State Senate term start3 1801 term end3 1804 predecessor3 successor3 order3 office4 Member of the br Massachusetts House of Representatives term start4 1805 term end4 1807 predecessor4 successor4 office5 Treasurer of Berkshire County br Massachusetts ref Citation last Dexter first Franklin Bowditch title Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the College History Volume IV page 388 publisher Henry Holt and Company location New York, NY year 1907 ref term start5 September, 1791 term end5 August, 1810 predecessor5 successor5 religion Presbyterian ref Citation last De Lancey first Edward Floyd title Marshall S. Bidwell, a memoir, historical and biographical page 5 publisher Edward Floyd De Lancey location New York, NY year 1890 ref signature website footnotes Barnabas Bidwell August 23, 1763 July 27, 1833 was a dual Canadian and United States American politician of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. Bidwell was born to Adonijah Bidwell and Jemima Devotion in Monterey, Massachusetts Township No. 1 no ... more details
Notability date May 2009 Dolly Williams is co founder and CFO of A. Williams Construction , a Brooklyn, NY general contracting company. ref citation title Dolly Williams, Commissioner publisher New York City Department of City Planning url http www.nyc.gov html dcp html about williamsbio.shtml accessdate 2007 11 28 format &ndash sup http scholar.google.co.uk scholar?hl en&lr &q intitle 3ADolly Williams 2C Commissioner&as publication &as ylo &as yhi &btnG Search Scholar search sup archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20071014035104 http nyc.gov html dcp html about williamsbio.shtml Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2007 10 14 Dead link date April 2009 ref ref name nycfuture 20040217 citation title Forum Tapping the Economic Potential of New York s Immigrant Entrepreneurs publisher Center for an Urban Future date 2004 02 17 year 2004 url http www.nycfuture.org content reports report view.cfm?repkey 134 accessdate 2007 11 28 format &ndash sup http scholar.google.co.uk scholar?hl en&lr &q intitle 3AForum 3A Tapping the Economic Potential of New York 27s Immigrant Entrepreneurs&as publication &as ylo 2004 &as yhi 2004 &btnG Search Scholar search sup Dead link date April 2009 Dead link date September 2010 bot H3llBot ref She was a member of the New York City Planning Commission from 2002 07. Personal life Williams, born in Trinidad and Tobago , has lived in Brooklyn, NY since 1971. She and her husband, Adonijah Carl Williams, have two children and reside in Park Slope, Brooklyn . ref name brooklyn 20020919 citation title Borough President Appoints Award Winning Businesswoman to the City Planning Commission publisher Brooklyn Borough President year 2002 date 2002 09 19 url http www.brooklyn usa.org Press 2002 Sept19.htm accessdate 2007 11 28 ref A graduate of St. Francis College with a B.S. in Accounting , in 1979 Williams and her husband founded A. Williams Trucking & Backhoe Trenching Company also known as A. Williams Construction , which has grown into a multi million do ... more details
Infobox school district name Atherton Community School logo motto type Public budget established 1836 region Mid West grades K 12 superintendent John Ploof schools 3 students teachers staff ratio conference accreditation mascot Wolverine colors Black and White free label President free text Bette Bigsby free label2 Vice President free text2 Cynthia Gentilini free label3 free text3 location country mapimage1 mapimage1size mapimage2 mapimage2size schedule information website http www.athertonschools.org athertonschools.org Atherton High School is a Public school in Burton, Michigan . Atherton Community School District is one of five public school districts serving Burton, Michigan Burton Genesee County, Michigan Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and in the Genesee Intermediate School District . Atherton School District runs three schools Atherton High School, Atherton Middle School and Vern Van Y. School. ref http www.localschooldirectory.com district schools 25130 Atherton Community Schools District MI Local School Directory.com Atherton Community Schools District listing ref The total school district has about 1,025 Students. There are approximately 61 teachers that are employed there. History Atherton opened as an one room log schoolhouse at Atherton and Center roads corner in 1836 within the then newly formed Flint Township, Michigan later Township of Burton now Burton, Michigan City of Burton for the Atherton Settlement just founded a year before. The school district is named after the first teacher, Betsey Atherton, daughter of Adonijah Atherton one of the town s first settlers. Betsey died a few months later. The district in 1878 had funding of 1,832, 17 teachers and eight schoolhouses. Four elementary schools eventual replaced the eight schoolhouses Fisk, H.W. Medler, Metzger and Herbst. These elementary schools operated until the late 1960s. Fisk was on Manor Drive and is currently a daycare. The remaining two, Metzger on Sitka Street and Herbst on ... more details
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Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga October 1911 ref http books.google.ca books?id HJErAQAAIAAJ&q Jaramogi Oginga Odinga 1911&dq Jaramogi Oginga Odinga 1911&hl en&sa X&ei Xb8LT52XIsSYiQKK YyBBA&ved 0CC4Q6AEwADgK ref January 20, 1994 was a Luo Kenya Luo Chieftain who became a prominent figure in Kenya s struggle for independence. He later served as Kenya s first Vice President of Kenya Vice President , and thereafter as opposition leader. Odinga s son Raila Odinga is the current Prime Minister of Kenya Prime Minister , and another son, Oburu Odinga , is the Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Finance. Early years and career Oginga Odinga was born in Bondo District Bondo , Nyanza Province . In his autobiography, Not Yet Uhuru , Odinga estimates the date of his birth to be October, 1911. Christened Obadiah Adonijah , he later renounced his Christian names and became known as Oginga Odinga. He was a student of Maseno School ref cite web url http www.masenoschool.sc.ke content.php?pid 35 title Maseno Old Boys publisher Maseno School date accessdate 2011 08 04 ref and Alliance High School Kenya Alliance High School . He went to Makerere University in 1940, and returned to Maseno High School as a teacher. In 1948 he joined the political party Kenya African Union KAU . Spurred to empower his Luo Kenya Kenyan Luo ethnic group, Odinga started the Luo Thrift and Trading Corporation registered in 1947 . With time, Odinga and his group undertook to strengthen the union between Luo Luo people in the whole of East Africa . His efforts earned him admiration and recognition among the Luo, who revered him as Ker a title previously held by the fabled classical Luo king, Ramogi Ajwang, who reigned 400 years before him. Vowing to uphold the ideals of Ramogi Ajwang, Odinga became known as Jaramogi man of the people of Ramogi . Vice presidency According to Luo tradition, a Ker can not be a politician, so Odinga relinquished his position as king in 1957 and became the political spokesman of the ... more details
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