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Booth and group
The original group of boys that made up Troop # 1 were Charles Booth, George Booth, Gerald Brock, Carl Burgess, Earl Burgess, Dr. Stanton Burgess, Raymond Cave, William Cheeney, Clarence Geake, James Grearson, Walter Grearson, Douglas Inglis, Harry Kent, George Murray, Milton Rollins, Craig Rollins ( or Ronald Cragg?
Ballard joined Henry Booth, Charles Sutton, Sonny Woods and Alonzo Tucker in the group, replacing previous singer Lawson Smith.
One group opposed to Booth and The Salvation Army was the Skeleton Army, a diffuse group, particularly in Southern England, that opposed and disrupted The Salvation Army's marches against alcohol from the early 1880s until about 1892.
According to cultural researchers Booth and Nauright, Zulu workers later took up the song to generate rhythm during group tasks and to alleviate boredom and stress.
As Reagan's lead in the polls increased, Brown began to panic and made a gaffe when he told a group of school children that an actor, John Wilkes Booth, had killed Abraham Lincoln.
Two key members of the James organisation resigned — guitarist and key composer Larry Gott ( who left the group in order to spend more time with his family ) and manager Martine McDonagh ( who had had a sometimes fraught romantic relationship with Booth, resulting in a son called Ben ).
The school belongs to the M7 group of elite MBA programs which recognize each other as peers, consisting of Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Stanford, and Wharton.
The original " Pay Heed " banner was constructed out of dormitory shower curtains by a group of KU students before a late season game against the Duke Blue Devils in 1988 and is now on display in the Booth Family Hall of Athletics museum.
The car belongs to a group of friends on a hiking trip: Jessie Burlingame ( Eliza Dushku ), Carly ( Emmanuelle Chriqui ), her fiancé Scott ( Jeremy Sisto ), and a couple-Evan and Francine ( Kevin Zegers and Lindy Booth ).
Phil Booth, national coordinator of NO2ID, a group opposing identity cards, said this was ' cradle-to-grave surveillance '.
Dr. Strangely Strange were an experimental Irish folk group, formed in Dublin in 1967 by Tim Booth ( born 6 September 1943, County Kildare, Ireland ), vocals and guitar, and Ivan Pawle ( born 17 August 1943, England ) bass and keyboards.
When in 1896 an American break-away group led by her brother Ballington Booth and his wife Maud Ballington Booth attempted to tempt American Salvationists away from The Salvation Army and into a rival group called Volunteers of America, General Booth sent Evangeline to New York.
The formation of a victims advocacy group Tennis Shoe Brigade, named in reference to the discovery of a child's tennis shoe leading the police to the assaulted boy, rallying for toughening the laws, raised the public pressure on Washington's Governor Booth Gardner.
" The group contained renowned artists such as Edward E. Anderson, Joseph R. Bagshawe, Thomas Barrett and James W. Booth and was inspired by other impressionists such as Monet, Cezanne and Renoir.

Booth and co-conspirators
While trying to elude Union cavalry, co-conspirators John Wilkes Booth and David Herold crossed into the Northern Neck in King George County from Maryland on April 21, 1865 after assassinating US president Abraham Lincoln.

Booth and originally
The cult-image's inscription originally pertained to " Nephthys, Foremost of the Sed in the Booth of Annals " ( at Medinet-Habu ), but was re-inscribed or re-dedicated to " Nephthys, Foremost of the of Herakleopolis.
The band originally consisted of musicians Frankie Boyce, Richard Boyce, and Langston Booth plus the five members of the Parliaments on vocals.
Salvation Army leader Evangeline Cory Booth ( 1865 – 1950 ), originally from London, lived in Hartsdale until her death on July 17, 1950.
Settlement in the valley consists of several booths, originally established in the 13th century as ' vaccaries ' ( cattle farms ) along the valley of the River Noe, which have since developed into the hamlets of Upper Booth ( once Crowdenley Booth and Over Booth ), Barber Booth ( once Whitmorely Booth ), Grindsbrook Booth, Ollerbrook Booth and Nether Booth ( also known as Lady Booth and, formerly, Lower Booth ).
Though not originally called " suncakes ", they were given the name by the owner of " Sun Booth ", one of the most famous pastry shops that sells them.
Booth loosened the rigid categories of genre originally set forth by the Chicago School, and moved the concentration away from poetry towards rhetoric.
As detailed in Justice League of America # 29 ( August 1964 ), the Crime Syndicate of America originally lived on Earth-Three, a world where history was " reversed " from the real world ( e. g., Christopher Columbus discovered Europe, British colonists declared their independence from America, and President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by Abraham Lincoln ).
Born Patti Woodard to William Robert Woodard, a railroad president, and Ellen Booth in Palmyra, Missouri, she originally intended to become a circus rider, then later an opera singer.
Michael Caine, who at this time in his career was primarily playing bit parts, was originally up for the role of Private Henry Hook, which went to James Booth.
Booth originally envisioned the game as an " updated version of Atari's Gauntlet ", focusing on real-time magical combat in the vein of Magic: The Gathering and Mortal Kombat.
The band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, originally consisted of vocalist Nick Gilder, guitarist Jim McCulloch, bassist Budd Marr, keyboardist Dan Gaudin and drummer John Booth.
The station in its current incarnation signed on the air as a beautiful music station, featuring programming of SRP ( Stereo Music Productions Schulke ) on December 24, 1970, originally owned by Sudbrink Broadcasting, an originator of FM broadcasting nationwide and prior to that time, owned by Booth Broadcasting as a pioneer FM station, WAQE ( FM ), signing on in 1963.
The band, which originally formed in 1997, consists of former Leslie Spit Treeo member Jack Nicholsen, Cindy Mathews, Rod Booth, Kevin Quain, Sam Ferrara and Tony Benattar.

Booth and kidnap
The Old Soldiers Home, where Booth planned to kidnap Lincoln
After Lincoln's landslide re-election in early November 1864 on a platform advocating passage of the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to abolish slavery altogether, Booth devoted increasing energy and money to his kidnap plot.
Booth assembled his team on a stretch of road near the Soldier's Home in the attempt to kidnap Lincoln en route to the hospital, but the president did not appear.
Some years after opening his carriage repair business, Atzerodt met John Wilkes Booth in Washington, D. C. Atzerodt was willing to join in a conspiracy to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln, as he later admitted in his trial, which began May 1, 1865.

Booth and Lincoln
Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
* 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.
* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.
Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.
Eyewitness Lieutenant Edward Doherty, the officer in charge of the soldiers who captured Booth and Herold, stated that " the bullet struck Booth in the back of the head, about an inch below the spot where his shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln.
Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.
John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.
After Booth shot him once in the back of the head, Lincoln died the next morning.
Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's two illegitimate actor sons, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, would eventually spur them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
Booth ignored an invitation to visit Lincoln between acts, however.
Lincoln was elected president on November 6, 1860, and the following month Booth drafted a long speech, apparently undelivered, that decried Northern abolitionism and made clear his strong support of the South and the institution of slavery.
As the Civil War went on, Booth increasingly quarreled with his brother Edwin, who declined to make stage appearances in the South and refused to listen to John Wilkes ' fiercely partisan denunciations of the North and Lincoln.
Once in Confederate hands, Lincoln would be exchanged for the release of Confederate Army prisoners of war held captive in Northern prisons and, Booth reasoned, bring the war to an end by emboldening opposition to the war in the North or forcing Union recognition of the Confederate government.
By this time, Booth was arguing so vehemently with his older, pro-Union brother Edwin about Lincoln and the war that Edwin finally told him he was no longer welcome at his New York home.
Booth also railed against Lincoln in conversations with his sister Asia, saying, " That man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his policy are a disgrace to the seat he holds.
On March 17, Booth learned that Lincoln would be attending a performance of the play Still Waters Run Deep at a hospital near the Soldier's Home.

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