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Population (2000): 339 Housing Units (2000): 186 Land area (2000): 0.929222 sq. miles (2.406673 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.019130 sq. miles (0.049546 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.948352 sq. miles (2.456219 sq. km) FIPS code: 49740 Located within: Michigan ...

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Notable people with the given name Luther include: Luther Allison (1939–1997), American blues guitarist Luther Badger (1785–1868), US congressman from New York Luther Blissett (born 1958), English footballer Luther Blissett (nom de plume) , nom de plume ...

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In the long period of twelve hundred years, which elapsed between the reign of Constantine and the reformation of Luther, the worship of saints and relics corrupted the pure and perfect simplicity of the Christian model: and some symptoms of degeneracy may be observed even in the first generations which adopted and cherished this pernicious innovation.

Thus it was that Luther said, so felicitously and so truly, that the human mind was like a drunken peasant on horseback: prop it on one side, and it falls on the other.

There were criticisms in it referring sometimes to dangerous ideas -- spoken even by a cardinal, in Holland or Belgium, he forgot which -- or written by a priest who had a Teutonic name which put Father Quixote in mind of Luther -- but he paid little attention to such criticisms, for it was very unlikely that he would have to defend the orthodoxy of the Church against the butcher, the baker, the garagist or even the restaurant keeper who was the most educated man in El Toboso except for the Mayor, and as the Mayor was believed by the bishop to be an atheist and a Communist, he could safely be ignored as far as the doctrine of the Church was concerned.

After her son was gunned down at a 1999 Martin Luther King Day rally, Graham became active in the antigun cause.

Hoen at the Hague, Hinne Rode at Utrecht, Gerard Lister at Zwolle, Melchior Miritzsch at Ghent, were soon in correspondence with Luther and became missionaries of his faith.

It is significant that the Reformations of Wyclif, Huss, and Luther, all started in universities.

Bohemia, a Slav kingdom long united historically and dynastically with the Empire, as the home of Huss, welcomed the Reformation warmly, the Brethren turning first to Luther and then to Calvin.

He preferred a parley and demanded, in addition to a free pardon, the acceptance of the northern demands, the summons of a free Parliament, the restoration of the papal supremacy as touching the cure of souls, and the suppression of the books of Tyndale, Huss, Luther, and Melanchthon.

It mentions a number of Bibles in Greek, Latin and the vernaculars, the works of Luther, Carlstadt, Osiander, Ochino, Bullinger, Calvin, Oecolampadius, Jonas, Calvin, Melanchthon, Zwingli, Huss and John Pupper of Goch, a Dutch author of the fifteenth century revived by the Protestants.

I do not mention the Vaudois valleys of Piedmont, for I am told these were Protestant before either Huss or Luther preached.

Walt Disney and Luther Burbank, a fully developed Stage 20 Neurogenetic brain.

Martin Luther King Day, 1990, this lent a credence to his claim that genuinely alarmed telco security and the Secret Service.

Luther quit Burger Boy and accepted a job from FAGERBAN harvesting Plasminogen Recepts for eight bucks an hour, would you disown him?

When Luther had protested against the abuse of indulgences he did so as a loyal son of the church.

The people Rait set out to reach, and whom we want to reach, are the students of Life, so to speak--much in the same way that Luther Burbank studies botany, for the love of it.