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Augustine of Canterbury was a Christian monk who became the first archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is considered the "Apostle to the English" and a founding figure of the Church of England.
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Pōmare IV, more properly ʻAimata Pōmare IV Vahine-o-Punuateraʻitua, was the Queen of Tahiti between 1827 and 1877. She was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Tahiti.
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The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America's oldest society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. AIA professionals have carried out archaeological fieldwork around the world and AIA has established research centers and schools in seven countries. As of 2019, the society had more than 6,100 members and more than 100 affiliated local societies in the United States and overseas. AIA members include professional archaeologists and members of the public.
Henry Grattan Guinness was an Irish Nonconformist Protestant preacher, evangelist and author. He was the great evangelist of the Third Evangelical awakening and preached during the Ulster Revival of 1859 which drew thousands to hear him. He was responsible for training and sending hundreds of "faith missionaries" all over the world.
Beta Abraham —other terms by which the community have been known include Tebiban, Balla Ejj, Buda and Kayla ,—is a community regarded by some as a crypto-Jewish offshoot of the Beta Israel community. The size of the community is estimated to be somewhere upwards of 150,000 in number.
Kabulistan is a historical regional name referring to the territory that is centered on present-day Kabul Province of Afghanistan.
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Daniel Coker (1780–1846), born Isaac Wright, was an African American of mixed race from Baltimore, Maryland. Born a slave, after he gained his freedom, he became a Methodist minister in 1802. He wrote one of the few pamphlets published in the South that protested against slavery and supported abolition. In 1816, he helped found the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination in the United States, at its first national convention in Philadelphia.
George Pritchard was a British Christian missionary and diplomat.
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James Fanstone was a British Christian medical missionary in Brazil. In the early 1920s, he served as the only surgeon and doctor in the city of Anápolis and built the first hospital there,also is the great-grandfather of guilherme fanstoni the biggest shareholder of unievangelica the Protestant university of goias and one of the most influential people in the city being in between the top 5 richest of the state
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Tenaniʻa Ariʻifaʻaite a Hiro was a Prince consort of Tahiti. He was son of Hiro from Huahine and Teihotu alias Ta'avea daughter of Tamatoa III of Raiatea. He became second consort of his first cousin, Pōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti, who was likewise a maternal granddaughter of Tamatoa III. From their union were born:
- A boy, died of dysentery
- Henry Pōmare ., died of dysentery
- Ariʻiaue Pōmare, Crown Prince of Tahiti, Ariʻi of Afaʻahiti.
- Pōmare V, succeeded as King of Tahiti.
- Teriʻimaevarua II, succeeded as Queen of Bora Bora.
- Tamatoa V, succeeded as King of Raiatea.
- Victoria Pōmare-vahine.
- Punuariʻi Teriʻitapunui Pōmare, Ariʻi of Mahina and President of the Tahitian High Court.
- Teriʻitua Tuavira Pōmare, Ariʻirahi of Hitiaʻa, called the "Prince of Joinville".
- Tevahitua Pōmare.
The Franco-Tahitian War or French–Tahitian War (1844–1847) was a conflict between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Tahiti and its allies in the South Pacific archipelago of the Society Islands in modern-day French Polynesia.
Esther Pritchard was a 19th-century American minister and editor. Pritchard was the daughter of a minister of the Society of Friends. She was one of the leading preachers of the Friends' Society in the United States, and was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's Superintendent of the Department of Systematic Giving. Pritchard edited for some years the Friend's Missionary Advocate, and was a teacher in the Chicago Training School for Missions. Her husband's removal from Chicago to the pastorate of the Friends church, Kokomo, Indiana, severed her connection with the school and left her free to push the special work of her department. Seventeen State Unions subsequently adopted the department, while outside the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, ten Woman's Missionary Boards were influenced to create a similar agency. She died in 1900.
