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Billie McCandless. Christopher Johnson McCandless ( / məˈkændlɪs /; February 12, 1968 [ 1] – c. August 1992), also known by his pseudonym " Alexander Supertramp ", [ 2] was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that ...
The Wandering Jew (occasionally referred to as the Eternal Jew, a calque from German "der Ewige Jude") is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. [ a] In the original legend, a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion was then cursed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming.
The Jesus movement was an evangelical Christian movement that began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily spread throughout North America, Europe, Central America, Australia and New Zealand, before it subsided in the late 1980s. Members of the movement were called Jesus people or Jesus freaks .
Conservatism portal. United States portal. v. t. e. James Clayton Dobson Jr.[ a] (born April 21, 1936) is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder of Focus on the Family (FotF), which he led from 1977 until 2010. In the 1980s, he was ranked as one of the most influential spokesmen for conservative social positions in ...
0-674-81050-3. OCLC. 29184587. Dewey Decimal. 808.3 20. LC Class. PN3355 .E28 1994. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods is a non-fiction book by Umberto Eco. Originally delivered at Harvard for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1992 and 1993, the six lectures were published in the fall of 1994.
A Walk in the Woods. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail is a 1998 travel book by the writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his attempt to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail during the spring and summer of 1996. For much of his journey, Bryson was accompanied by his friend Matt Angerer (pseudonymously called "Stephen Katz ...
The Los Angeles Crusade of 1949 was the first great evangelistic campaign of Billy Graham. It was organized by the Christian group Christ for Greater Los Angeles. [ 1] The campaign was scheduled for three weeks, but it was extended to eight weeks. [ 2] During the campaign Graham spoke to 350,000 people, by the end, [ 3] 3,000 of them decided to ...
Michael Tyler, a spokesperson for Biden's re-election campaign, issued a statement calling Vance “unprepared, unqualified and willing to do anything Donald Trump demands.”. Trump, who watched ...