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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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    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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    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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    The "Hymn to Liberty", also known as the "Hymn to Freedom", is a Greek poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros...
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    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (category Hymns by Charles Wesley)
    an English Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems. The carol, based on Luke 2:14, tells of an angelic chorus...
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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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    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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    popular writer of gospel music in the mid-tolate 19th century. His best-known hymns include "Shall We Gather at the River", "Christ Arose!", "How Can I Keep...
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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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    [ɦənʊmaːn tʃaːliːsaː]; Forty chaupais on Hanuman) is a Hindu devotional hymn (stotra) in praise of Hanuman, and popularly recited by millions of Hindus...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Face to face with Christ my Saviour (category 19th-century hymns)
    Saviour is a hymn by American writer Carrie Breck, written in 1898. It is Breck's most well-known composition. Carrie Breck wrote the hymn while living...
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    Shri Rudram (category Vedic hymns)
    is important in Shaivism, where Shiva is viewed as the Parabrahman. The hymn is an early example of enumerating the names of a deity. Shri Rudram is also...
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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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  • State Library". www.nysl.nysed.gov. Retrieved 2020-05-12. "Section 91. State hymn of remembrance in honor of all American veterans", New York Consolidated...
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    Pitman is a borough in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 8,780, a decrease...
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    William Batchelder Bradbury (category Musicians from Montclair, New Jersey)
    musician who composed the tune to "Jesus Loves Me" and many other popular hymns. He was born on October 6, 1816, in York, Maine, where his father was the...
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