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Salem and Witchcraft
:: ' Who got up Salem Witchcraft?
" Poole announces his intention to redeem Mather's name, using as a springboard a harsh critique of a recently published tome by Charles Wentworth Upham called " Salem Witchcraft Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects.
Chadwick Hansen ’ s Witchcraft at Salem, published in 1969, defined Mather as a positive influence on the Salem Trials.
* Upham, Charles Wentworth Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather, A Reply Morrisania, N. Y. 1869 http :// www. gutenberg. org / files / 26978 / 26978-h / 26978-h. htm
* 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for " certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries ".
After auditioning top selected artists, including Arlen Viecelli, ( of Salem Witchcraft fame ), they added Billy Ellworthy.
The book strongly influenced Cotton Mather in his Discourse on Witchcraft ( 1689 ) and the Salem witch trials held 1692-3 in Salem, Massachusetts.
Among the best plays of the period are James Nelson Barker's Superstition ; or, the Fanatic Father, Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion ; or, Life in New York, Nathaniel Bannister's Putnam, the Iron Son of ' 76, Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon ; or, Life in Louisiana, and Cornelius Mathews's Witchcraft ; or, the Martyrs of Salem.
Deodat Lawson, a former minister in Salem Village, visited Salem Village in March and April, 1692, and published an account in Boston in 1692 of what he witnessed and heard, called " A Brief and True Narrative of Some Remarkable Passages Relating to Sundry Persons Afflicted by Witchcraft, at Salem Village: Which happened from the Nineteenth of March, to the Fifth of April, 1692 ".
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.
* Brown, David C .. A Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692.
" The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History ".
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.
* Robinson, Enders A. Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables.
` The Devil hath been raised `: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692.
* Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692

Salem and I
The first cherry festival in Salem was held in 1903 and was an annual event, with parades and the election of a cherry queen, until sometime after World War I.
Short term future plans include a loop coming off SH 105 near Pin Oak Road, along the southern side of Cleveland, crossing I 69 and FM 1010, and terminating at SH 321 near New Salem Road.
#" I Hope You Don't Mind " ( Salem ) – 5: 19
Tituba is the protagonist of the novel I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem ( 1986 ) by Maryse Condé.
The charge, which is seen by some as having barely disguised racial undertones, is based on the imagination of authors like Starkey, who mirrors Salem ’ s accusers when she asserts that " I have invented the scenes with Tituba .... but they are what I really believe happened.
A native of the state, he served in World War I before he became a successful businessman, mainly as a car dealership owner in the capital city of Salem.
In Salem on July 4, he acknowledged the rumbles of secession threats and proclaimed his willingness to die for his country: “ If it be reserved for me to lay my unworthy life upon the altar of my country in defending it from internal assailants, I declare here today that I aspire to no higher glory than that the sun of my life may go down beneath the shadow of freedom ’ s temple and baptize the emblem of the nation ’ s greatness, the Stars and Stripes, that float so proudly before us today, in my heart ’ s warmest blood .”
This would be supported in her deposition in Salem Village before the authorities stating, " I never saw these persons before, nor I never was in this place before.
For instance, in an 1847 lecture to the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, Massachusetts, he said, " Were I about to tell you the evils of Slavery, to represent to you the Slave in his lowest degradation, I should wish to take you, one at a time, and whisper it to you.
He wrote 29 anthems, ranging from large-scale works for choir and organ such as Blessed city, heavenly Salem to elegant miniatures like I sat down under his shadow and Jesu, the very thought of thee.
March 30, 1798, by act of the Legislature, Alexander I. Turner and Adonijah Skinner were given the exclusive right, for five years beginning May 1, 1798, to conduct a stage line between the village of Lansingburgh and the town of Hampton, Washington county, passing through the towns of Hebron, Salem and Granville.
Due to the distance to Altdorf, King Maximilian I granted Salem the right to establish a legal court in Schemmerberg in 1497.
Condé's novels explore racial, gender and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trials in I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem ( 1992 ) and the 19th-century Bambara Empire of Mali in Segu ( 1987 ).
* I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem ( 1986 )
Still later, a three-part song came over the wire from Somerville, and Mr. Bell told his audience “ I will switch off the song from one part of the room to another, so that all can hear .” At a subsequent lecture in Salem, Massachusetts, communication was established with Boston, eighteen miles distant, and Mr. Watson at the latter place sang “ Auld Lang Syne ”, the National Anthem, and " Hail Columbia ”, while the audience at Salem joined in the chorus.

Salem and II
The first UWC college, the United World College of the Atlantic, located in a 12th Century castle set in 90 hectares of grounds in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales, United Kingdom, was founded in 1962 with the initiative of Kurt Hahn, a German educationalist who had previously founded Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, Gordonstoun in Scotland, and the Outward Bound movement ; the castle was gifted to UWC by Antonin Besse II, the son of Sir Antonin Besse.
After World War II, the town enjoyed a population boom as a bedroom community for Boston, Lynn, and Salem.
Currently there are seventeen local associations: New Salem, Northern New Salem, Old Friendship, Old Indian Bottom, Philadelphia, Sardis, Union, Bethel, Friendship, Indian Bottom, Mountain, Mountain II, Mud River, Original Mountain Liberty, Solid Rock, Sovereign Grace, and Thornton Union.
After graduation, he became an Army reservist during World War II before enrolling in Salem College in Harrison County.
* February 23 – Iraqi antiaircraft artillery downs a U. S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II near Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.
II ( AC ), IX ( B ), XIII, 31 and 617 Squadrons contributed to Tornado GR4 Wing 1 based at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait.
Salem also ran " The Patriot II " on sister station KYCR in Golden Valley.
* USS Salem ( CA-139 ) was a United States Navy Des Moines-class heavy cruiser following World War II
During World War II, air crews from Salem flew neutrality patrols along the coast and the Air Station roster grew to 37 aircraft.

Salem and by
When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.
Everyone in Salem, saint and sinner alike, is swept up by it.
In the spring of 1831, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods by flatboat from New Salem to New Orleans via the Sangamon, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers.
Lincoln's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first moved to New Salem ; by 1835, they were in a relationship but not formally engaged.
While Eugene has long been the second-largest city in Oregon, it was briefly surpassed by Salem between 2005 and 2007 .< ref >
More recent campaigning by anti-nuclear groups has related to several nuclear power plants including the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant, Indian Point Energy Center, Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station, Salem Nuclear Power Plant, and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.
* 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
Old Glory was made and presented to the young Captain Driver by his mother and some young ladies of his native Salem, Massachusetts.
The only death by peine forte et dure in American history was Giles Corey, who was pressed to death on September 19, 1692, during the Salem witch trials, after he refused to enter a plea in the judicial proceeding.
Salem al-Hazmi was an al-Qaeda veteran by the time he was selected for participation in the 9 / 11 attacks.
The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salem Zaeef, responded to the ultimatum by demanding " convincing evidence " that Bin Laden was involved in the attacks, stating " our position is that if America has evidence and proof, they should produce it.
From the New England seaports of Boston, Salem, Providence, and New London, among others, the Yankees built an international trade, stretching to China by 1800.
Subsequently, he moved back to Salem by the fall of 1633 and was welcomed by Rev.
Narragansett Indians receiving Roger WilliamsIn the spring of 1636 Williams and a number of his followers from Salem began a settlement on land that Williams had bought from Massasoit, only to be told by Plymouth that he was still within their land grant.
The Confederates fought a successful delaying action at the Battle of Salem Church and by May 4 had driven back Sedgwick's men to Banks's Ford, surrounding them on three sides.

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