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    The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of the USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala. Its...
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    Nothing but the Blood of Jesus (category American Christian hymns)
    Nothing But The Blood of Jesus is a traditional American hymn about the blood atonement and propitiation for sin by the death of Jesus as explained in...
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    The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC...
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    America the Beautiful (category American Christian hymns)
    1882 to accompany lyrics to "Materna", basis of the hymn, "O Mother dear, Jerusalem", though the hymn was not first published until 1892. The combination...
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    A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part...
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    Swiss Psalm (redirect from Swiss hymn)
    new hymn text has been translated not only into the four official Swiss languages but also into English. More information and the scores of the hymn can...
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    hymn, "Stand up, stand up for Jesus". It is probable that this hymn is written in more hymn books across that country than any other hymn. The hymn has...
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    The "Hymn to Liberty", or "Hymn to Freedom" (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, also Ὕμνος πρὸς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν), is a poem written by Dionysios Solomos in...
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    Villiers, Countess of Jersey, DBE, JP (née Leigh; 29 October 1849 – 22 May 1945), was an English noblewoman, activist, writer and hymn-writer. Born Margaret...
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  • Hymn to liberty Hymn to Liberty, the anthem of Greece. It is the longest national anthem in the world with 158 stanzas, although only the first two constitute...
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    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (category Hymns by Charles Wesley)
    SongFacts. Breed, David (1934). The History and Use Hymns and Hymn-Tunes. Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company. Retrieved 25 December 2013...
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  • 1950. Tennessee Ernie Ford performed the song on his 1956 platinum album Hymns. A June 18, 1958 recording by Perry Como was part of his album When You...
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    writer of gospel music in the mid- to late-19th century. His best-known hymns include "Shall We Gather at the River", "Christ Arose!", "How Can I Keep...
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    Samuel A. Ward (category Burials at Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Newark, New Jersey))
    remembered for the 1882 tune "Materna", which he intended as a setting for the hymn "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem". This was published ten years later, in 1892....
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    enduring name by composing, since 1804, over 4,000 Sunday school hymns." Staff. "New Jersey paddleboarder Michelle Davidson salutes Diana Nyad's Cuba to U...
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  • mandir (temple) built by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha in Robbinsville, New Jersey. It is the largest Hindu mandir in the United States and the second-largest...
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  • Thomas Chisholm (songwriter) (category People from Vineland, New Jersey)
    Sketches of Living Gospel Hymn Writers. Chicago: Rodeheaver Company. Retrieved January 10, 2022. Osbeck, Kenneth W. (1982). 101 Hymn Stories. Grand Rapids...
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    Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Hope Publishing Company, 1894); Favorite Gospel Songs: A Tune Book (Jersey City, New Jersey: J. N. Davis...
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  • Wynn on recording Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions is a 2022 studio...
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  • Plains, New Jersey. Hillside Cemetery was established as a non-sectarian, non-profit organization in 1886 under the state laws of New Jersey, which carefully...
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    minister". Graeff wrote 200 hymns and a novel The Minister's Twin. Graeff died on July 29, 1919, in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, at age 68. Gabriel, Charles...
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  • Peter Wilhousky (category Musicians from Passaic, New Jersey)
    "Carol of the Bells". Wilhousky's 1944 choral arrangement of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959 with the Mormon...
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    the tripoint of Orange, West Orange and Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Cyrus Baldwin drew up the original plan for the cemetery...
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  • When We All Get to Heaven (category 19th-century hymns)
    "When We All Get to Heaven" is a popular Christian hymn. The lyrics were written in 1898 by Eliza Hewitt and the melody by Mrs. J. G. (Emily) Wilson. The...
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  • list of people with the surname McAfee and MacAfee McAfee, the tune to the hymn "Near to the Heart of God" written by Cleland Boyd McAfee McAfee Knob, a...
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    Neptune Township is a township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 28,061...
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  • song as an opening hymn by handing out sheet music titled "In the Garden of Eden" by "I. Ron Butterfly". Lovejoy describes the hymn as "sound[ing] like...
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    manufacturer, inventor, hymn writer, choral director, church leader and philanthropist. He composed over 2,000 church hymns. More than seventy patents...
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    anthem's music was originally composed by Alexander Alexandrov in 1938 for the Hymn of the Bolshevik Party. Its opening bars were borrowed from one of Alexandrov's...
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    Tullar (5 August 1869 – 20 May 1950) was an American minister, composer, and hymn writer. Tullar was born on August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. His parents...
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