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4 days ago · The movement traced its roots in the United States to Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802–1866), a New England clockmaker turned mental healer. His advertising flyer, "To the Sick" included this explanation of his clairvoyant methodology: ". . .he gives no medicines and makes no outward applications, but simply sits down by the patients ...
5 days ago · A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
3 days ago · Phineas forgives him and shows what a true friend would do. By the end of the year, a bunch of boys hold a mock trial to convict Gene of hurting Phineas, but Finny doesn't want to hear it.
5 days ago · Harriet Quimby was killed at Quincy, Massachusetts, 1 July 1912, when her Blériot XI, circling the airfield at 1,500 feet (457 meters) suddenly pitched down and she and her passenger were thrown out. Miss Quimby was buried at the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. Miss Harriet Quimby with her Blériot monoplane.
3 days ago · Hank Parkhurst (1895-1954) has been all but banished from the history of Alcoholics Anonymous, but that is somewhat understandable given the fact that he was sober for only four years.
4 days ago · Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable: 19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the ...
5 days ago · Harriet Quimby was most probably born in Arcadia Township, Michigan on May 11, 1875. Her parents came to the area to homestead in 1867 on 160 acres located about three miles southeast of present day Arcadia. Harriet went to school in the Arcadia School District in School No. 1, the Gabel School.
