Word: shiloh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mary Stollard-Purnell, 91, widow of "King" Benjamin Purnell, founder of the bewhiskered, ball-playing House of David, whose followers claimed to be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel;† near Shiloh, the religious cult's realm, in Benton Harbor, Mich. After "King" Benjamin died in 1927, while appealing his famed conviction on morals charges, the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary got half of its several-hundred-thousand-dollar property, gathered 200 loyal followers and established a new colony, where she awaited the millennium by supervising the colony's dairy farms...
Albert Woolson was only 17 when he joined the Army. It was October 1864, the war was almost over-and Albert felt he had to hurry for his share of glory. His father, a New York man, had lost a leg at Shiloh, and afterward had taken his family west to New Janesville, Minn. Albert learned the "rifle art" from a Winnebago Indian named Winneshake, and thus prepared, enlisted in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery...
Outside of his pulpit, Bachelor Macartney spends most of his spare time in writing and historical research. A specialist on the Civil War, he has walked over almost every battlefield from Manassas to Shiloh. A good many of his 46 published books are written about historical subjects (e.g., a life of McClellan, several studies of Lincoln); the rest are sermons and devotional works...
...cashier, then threatened to kill a customer, and in the end picked up $10,000. But when he backed out for the getaway, it seemed that half the people in town were waiting. "It was just bang, bang, bang," said an awestruck witness. "It sounded like the Battle of Shiloh. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. Everybody in town had guns...
...According to the Bible, an angry prophet of Shiloh, who foretold the division of the kingdom of Israel...