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    Shaker Heights
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    SHAKER HEIGHTS city (1990 pop. 30,831), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio...Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen, it takes its name from a Shaker community that once existed there (1822 89). It is a beautiful...Euclid, and University Heights. A museum documenting the Shakers is in the city. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...
     
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    Shakers
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    SHAKERS popular name for members of the United Society of Believers in Christs Second Appearing, also...as she was known, gained a number of converts, who after her death (1784) began the formation of Shaker communities. By 1826 there were 18 Shaker communities in eight states, as far west as Indiana. After 1860, Shakerism began to decline; by 2000...
     
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    Harvard
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    HARVARD town (1990 pop. 12,329), Worcester co., E central Mass.; inc. 1732. A Shaker house and cemetery, a Native American museum, and a Harvard observatory are there. A museum on the site of Fruitlands, a cooperative...
     
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    Wovoka
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...known as Jack Wilson, he was influenced by his father (a mystic) as well as by the Christian family for whom he worked and the Shaker religion. Wovoka claimed that during an eclipse of the sun (Jan. 1, 1889) he had had a vision in which God had given him a...
     
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    Aurangzeb
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...battle for succession. He imprisoned his father for life and ascended the throne at Agra with the reign title Alamgir world-shaker. A scholarly, austere man, devoted to Islam, he persecuted the Hindus, destroying their temples and monuments. He executed the...
     

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