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Southeastern United States: usually including the Carolinas, the Virginias, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and at times Maryland and Delaware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee

Autumn in Tennessee. Roadway to Lindsey Lake in David Crockett State Park, located a half mile west of Lawrenceburg

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With the rapid growth of black Baptist churches in the South, in 1895 church officials organized a new Baptist association, the National Baptist Convention.

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A Home on the Mississippi, Currier and Ives, 1871

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The decline is attributed mainly to the dropping membership of the Mainline Protestant churches, while Evangelical Protestant and Black churches are stable or continue to grow.

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African American Baptist Church, Silver Hill Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina

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Quote from: zerorabbit23 on August 09, 2015, 08:43:26 PM

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Adventist doctrine resembles trinitarian Protestant theology, with premillennial and Arminian emphases. Adventists uphold teachings such as the infallibility of Scripture, the substitutionary atonement, the resurrection of the dead and justification by faith alone, and are therefore often considered evangelical.

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(The Ninety-Five Theses)

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According to the FAQ of the net.legends Usenet news group, Dave Rhodes was a student at Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University), a Seventh-day Adventist college in Maryland, who wrote the letter and uploaded it as a text file to a nearby BBS around 1987.

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View from Lake Whitney Seventh-day Adventist camp

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Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the recipient with bad luck or even physical violence or death if he or she "breaks the chain" and refuses to adhere to the conditions set out in the letter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Money_Fast

An Opte Project visualization of routing paths through a portion of the Internet

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Chain letters are also not allowed: "Guinness World Records does not accept any records relating to chain letters, sent by post or e-mail. If you receive a letter or an e-mail, which may promise to publish the names of all those who send it on, please destroy it, it is a hoax. No matter if it says that Guinness World Records and the postal service are involved, they are not."

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Top portion of a "Letter from Heaven," produced in England.

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It can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid, and is therefore known as a polyextremophile and has been listed as the world's toughest bacterium in The Guinness Book Of World Records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records

Lucky Diamond Rich is "the world's most tattooed person", and has tattoos covering his entire body. He holds the Guinness world record as of 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.

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Depending on its distance from Earth, a GRB and its ultraviolet radiation could damage even the most radiation resistant organism known, the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans.

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A tetrad of D. radiodurans

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An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as black holes, moons, planets, stars, asteroids, comets, nebulae and galaxies, as well as Gamma-ray bursts and cosmic microwave background radiation.

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Artist's illustration of a bright gamma-ray burst occurring in a star-forming region. Energy from the explosion is beamed into two narrow, oppositely directed jets.

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Cosmic latte is a name assigned in 2002 to the average color of the universe (derived from a sampling of the electromagnetic radiation from 200,000 galaxies), given by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University.

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The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1668)

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The underparts and the front legs are usually cream colored, the head can be brown or beige, however there is a distinctive white spot between the ears.

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A "beige" AT&T telephone.

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The Indian giant squirrel has been noted as a prey of this species and young bonnet macaques may also fall prey to them.

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Photograph of Ratufa indicus, taken in the Malabar Region of southwest India.

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The main coat of arms of Prussia, as well as the flag of Prussia, depicted a black eagle on a white background.

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Purple-faced leaf monkey juvenile attacked by a Black eagle and dead

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Frederick the Great (1712–86), the king of Prussia 1740–1786, saw himself as a leader of the Enlightenment and patronized philosophers and scientists at his court in Berlin.

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Prussian King's Crown (Hohenzollern Castle Collection)

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Christian theology’s preeminent place in the university began to be challenged during the European Enlightenment, especially in Germany.

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French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650)

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The theologian Paul Tillich characterized existential anxiety as "the state in which a being is aware of its possible nonbeing" and he listed three categories for the nonbeing and resulting anxiety: ontic (fate and death), moral (guilt and condemnation), and spiritual (emptiness and meaninglessness).

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Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Latin theologian. His writing on free will and original sin remains influential in Western Christendom.

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Granitoids are a ubiquitous component of the crust. They have crystallized from magmas that have compositions at or near a eutectic point (or a temperature minimum on a cotectic curve). Magmas will evolve to the eutectic because of igneous differentiation, or because they represent low degrees of partial melting. Fractional crystallisation serves to reduce a melt in iron, magnesium, titanium, calcium and sodium, and enrich the melt in potassium and silicon – alkali feldspar (rich in potassium) and quartz (SiO2), are two of the defining constituents of granite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon

Spectral lines of silicon

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Silicon is an essential element in biology, although only tiny traces of it appear to be required by animals. However, various sea sponges as well as microorganisms like diatoms and radiolaria secrete skeletal structures made of silica. Silica is often deposited in plant tissues, such as in the bark and wood of Chrysobalanaceae and the silica cells and silicified trichomes of Cannabis sativa, horsetails and many grasses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa

The flower of a hybrid Cannabis indica plant

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Cannabis strains with relatively high CBD:THC ratios are less likely to induce anxiety than vice versa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety

A marble bust of the Roman Emperor Decius from the Capitoline Museum. This portrait "conveys an impression of anxiety and weariness, as of a man shouldering heavy [state] responsibilities".

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Silica is often deposited in plant tissues, such as in the bark and wood of Chrysobalanaceae and the silica cells and silicified trichomes of Cannabis sativa, horsetails and many grasses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa

The flower of a hybrid Cannabis indica plant

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